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Originally Posted by tony404
That doesnt help someone making 10 bucks an hour. I was sitting at a stoplight by a busy intersection and I started looking at all the places of business in the area. The avg employee probably makes 8-9 bucks a hour.I was thinking how are these people going to function? Where I live we have shit public transportation.
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Listen it's supply and demand. If the government say had price controls and said gas couldn't be over $2 a gallon no one would reduce their useage or buy better fuel efficient cars. This would reduce the supply even faster and eventually you have shortages and rationing and long lines. And if you think this can't happen you wern't around in the 1970's
the optimal thing is to have cars that don't run on gas. This is along way off. It'll be at least 25 years before you have say 80% of the cars on the road using cars that don't use any gas. I will be at least 15 years before you get 80% of the cars on the road being hybrids, electric or other non gas using cars.