Gas

[SFGurrilla]

Theirs much controversy about this and I don't think if we all changed transportation without to something without gas that it would lower prices.

The United States has something called price floor and price ceiling.

When one company has to low of a price it is actually illegal.
If ones to high its illegal.

They do this to stop the spread of monopoly.

Also still large amounts of gas will be consumed still by industry. And if we don't use it, industry can use more and become more productive thus creating a better revenue because customers would use the public transport instead of paying for the gas, even know prices will stay the same.

If one station lowers prices of course there sales will increase and also increase revenue but the money used to find the oil will be less plus other expensense to cultivate it in the first place. Also why would someone with large sums of money be willing to change if the government backs them up and or has rules that feed the positive/negitive side to each of each issues benifiting the company.

We took something that was here and created something that cannot be re-balanced.

Thoughts?

SFGurrilla Reviewed by SFGurrilla on 06-06-2008. Gas Theirs much controversy about this and I don't think if we all changed transportation without to something without gas that it would lower prices. The United States has something called price floor and price ceiling. When one company has to low of a price it is actually illegal. If ones to high its illegal. They do this to stop the spread of monopoly. Also still large amounts of gas will be consumed still by industry. And if we don't use it, industry can use more and become more Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

I think it's price-fixing. As with any commodity, I have reservations about that. Our economy is not [yet] set up properly to utilize essentially Socialist methods; not to say that Socialism is a bad thing by any stretch, but we need to re-think our entire economic structure before doing something like that, starting with, "why did this happen in the first place?"

IMVHO... we as a country spend too much time commuting to work, over too-long distances, and our public transportation system is a joke. Some individual metro areas have got it figured out; I consider Boston to be a shining example of a well-run mass transit system, but for people outside of those areas, we are often stuck with outrageously bad bus schedules or nothing but privatized transit, like Amtrak and Greyhound, which don't make a lot of sense for the average commuter.

My daily drive to work is a half hour. There is a publicly-subsidized bus service that connects my home town to my work town, but it requires a bus change and takes over 2 hours to get there, and there's virtually no parking at the home town end. I'd love to live closer, and just walk to work, but the housing prices in my work town, compared to wages, are prohibitive. I try to take my ninja as often as possible, which gets 70mpg, but in bad weather I'm stuck driving like everyone else.

I think the gas prices are symptomatic of a much more profound problem, which sits in the middle of the tea party like a large alligator that the Ladies Who Lunch simply do not want to acknowledge, because it would then have to be dealt with.

[SFGurrilla]

I tried to state it a little more simple for people but you covered my point stinky. Glad theirs others on the same page of though structure.

[Coelho]

I think it has something to do with the so-called "Law of the supply and demand"... when there is more people willing to buy than people willing to sell, the price rises. When there is more people willing to sell than people willing to buy, the price falls. So, accordingly with this, if people use less gas (and thus buy less gas), the price of it should fall.
Of course its never so simple as i stated... but surely this supply and demand law has its importance to this question.

[Dream of the iris]

excellent point! But lets take this from a national level to an international level. The fact that gas prices are rising isn't because of us. In fact because gas prices hit 4 dollars a gallon American's are begining to conform to this new gas crisis era and consume less gas. So why do gas prices continue to rise? Its because of the other players in the international community. It's booming countries like China who raise the demand for oil which essentially raises the prices in supply and despite the fact that we're attempting to lower the supply side through methods of conservation, its these other countries with bigger populations who are screwing it up for everyone else. stinkyattic is correct in saying that is a much more profound problem.