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My governor seems to have a death wish, either that or there are too many hair-shirt democrats running policy. He has proposed addressing the high price of gasoline by lowering our speed limit and allowing self-service.

Aaaarrgggghhhhhhh. I want to shake some sense into him. He risks becoming another Florio with this one. Noone is blaming him for gas prices, and everyone with half a brain knows that gasoline is an international commodity and no single state is going to affect prices no matter what we do. And self-serve will not lower prices one cent, and economic studies show that, when a commodity has a set price like this, the retailers will just eat the savings from self-serve, they won't pass it on (same happens with tax breaks). So he wants to make sure we flog ourselves to no avail while everyone else consumes away anyway.

This move is politically tone deaf and stupid too. I don't know any living breathing human who supports this except the hair-shirt enviros. So we make 1000 extremists happy, and meanwhile offend every single other person in NJ. Really, this is beyond out of touch, its typical loser democrat strategy, letting your policy be run by elitist wonks and totally, completely alienating the average citizen. Women aren't going to like pumping gas, men aren't going to like driving slow, prices won't go down one penny.

And its so politically unnecessary; the problem is perceived as a Bush-Republican problem, he should just flog the republicans with it and otherwise stay away. Maybe give some incentives for high mileage cars. But no, he says he is going to solve the problem, and once you tell the public you are going to try to solve it, however, it becomes your problem, you own it. Stupid stupid stupid.