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.
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . 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