[Mears]

I like Samuelson,always have,and he's right on the money.

I probably wasted a gallon of gas this morning on a bunch of meaningless errands and will probably do the same thing tomorrow.

Higher gasoline prices would make me sit up and pay attention.

[cogitator]

I probably wasted a gallon of gas this morning on a bunch of meaningless errands and will probably do the same thing tomorrow.

Carpools are hard to arrange due to different work and home schedules. I always wondered if we could do neighborhood "errand pools" -- like one person picking up the dry cleaning for everybody in the neighborhood instead of 10 people doing it themselves. Even if two people shared a car to go to Home Depot, that would start to add up. There was a study a few years ago that showed air pollution was higher on weekend days than weekdays because more people were using their cars over a longer period on the weekend days.

[cogitator]

Sorry to pester your post, but we could call neighborhood errand pools "Screw the Saudis" pools, and derive a collective patriotic benefit out of fuel conservation. Conservation of numerous critical resources was accepted as de rigeur during WWII -- and doesn't the President keep telling us we're at war?

[Pessimist]

"Higher gasoline prices would make me sit up and pay attention."

And indeed they will... when they occur naturally because of decreased demand. NOT because the gvt slapped a few bucks a gallon tax on it, as he suggests.