Reply #40: Is gas not going up? [View All]

[loveable liberal]

Yes, people suffer during economic crisis, people suffer all the time. Instead of railing on me why dont you offer a solution. My solution is to price gas out of affordability to force the nation to break its dependence on foreign oil.

So you'd rather gas prices go down so we can extend our dependence? There have been starving kids and kids without health care when gas was $1.20 a gallon, so whats your point? (aside from my personal attributes).

>When you make a sweeping statement that you hope gas goes up to a point at which it's unaffordable for the vast number of Americans, I'm going to speak up, and I'm going to get a fairly good idea of what you're like. For those who do their best 40+ hours a week and have no access to mass transit, you're sentencing them to a fairly ugly end. There is no "least amount of suffering" for those who aren't going to be able to feed, house and clothe themselves and their families as the price of fuel continues to spiral, and it's just the beginning. There will be deaths this winter on the East Coast because people won't be able to afford to heat their homes, for instance.<

1. people are not planted, they wont stand in one place and starve to death.
2. gas is not unaffordable to a "vast" number of americans, we just cant afford to do anything else.
3. Not haveing access to mass transit is not a death sentence.
4. Minnesota has "cold weather protection" in which it is illegal for utilities to shut off heat
sources from 10/15 to 04/15 every year. It is true for Wisconsin and NoDak, and I would imagine
it is true for any other rust belt state.
5. you dont have any idea what I'm like, assumestress.

edited for continued rant.