There is the old adage that when you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is to stop digging. The problem is not the cost of a gallon of gasoline but the government subsidized transportation system that has resulted in American households needing to buy and maintain and insure and store two or three automobiles to be able to get…
There is the old adage that when you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is to stop digging. The problem is not the cost of a gallon of gasoline but the government subsidized transportation system that has resulted in American households needing to buy and maintain and insure and store two or three automobiles to be able to get to work or school or to buy groceries. Eisenhower having seen the autobahns in Germany after WW II mistakenly thought they improved transportation and did not realize that more than 90% of the war materials were moved by train. He spearheaded the interstate highway system with federal funding instead of funding trains and light rail.
Electric cars will solve nothing as they still will continue the present situation where more than half the land area of U.S. cities are taken up for cars and trucks and to so at great public cost. Even with privately owned parking lots there is the loss of revenue when it is not used for productive purposes.
It is disengenous to car about gas prices that only impact the bottom 10% of families in this country. No one cars that they are going hungry and without healthcare and often many are living in tents and subject to endless police aggression. Clearly no one else is impacted or motorists would alter their driving behavior on the highways to use less fuel but this is not being done by anyone so gas prices may be aggrevating but not enough of a problem for people to drive slower or reduce their trips during the week.
We do need price controls with corporations having increased prices for food and fuel and rent and drugs by more than 50% during the pandemic. Not a perfect solution but neither is letting corporate monopolies pillage the economy.
There is the old adage that when you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is to stop digging. The problem is not the cost of a gallon of gasoline but the government subsidized transportation system that has resulted in American households needing to buy and maintain and insure and store two or three automobiles to be able to get to work or school or to buy groceries. Eisenhower having seen the autobahns in Germany after WW II mistakenly thought they improved transportation and did not realize that more than 90% of the war materials were moved by train. He spearheaded the interstate highway system with federal funding instead of funding trains and light rail.
Electric cars will solve nothing as they still will continue the present situation where more than half the land area of U.S. cities are taken up for cars and trucks and to so at great public cost. Even with privately owned parking lots there is the loss of revenue when it is not used for productive purposes.
It is disengenous to car about gas prices that only impact the bottom 10% of families in this country. No one cars that they are going hungry and without healthcare and often many are living in tents and subject to endless police aggression. Clearly no one else is impacted or motorists would alter their driving behavior on the highways to use less fuel but this is not being done by anyone so gas prices may be aggrevating but not enough of a problem for people to drive slower or reduce their trips during the week.
We do need price controls with corporations having increased prices for food and fuel and rent and drugs by more than 50% during the pandemic. Not a perfect solution but neither is letting corporate monopolies pillage the economy.