Standing Bear wrote:
All that four dollar gas price is going to do is guarantee a depression and radicalization of our politics . . .
Not if it is imposed carefully, along with a tax cut for people making less than $30,000 per year.
The better solution and a better one for political stability is to impose rationing.
Bad idea. It will just cause shortages. It will not encourage people to adopt long-term solution such as buying more efficient cars. People will assume rationing is only going to last for a few months. Rationing may be a good short-term solution in the event of a catastrophe such as another hurricane or a pipeline break. Such things can be fixed quickly, so people will realize that the rationing is only temporary.
- Jed
