I would like to ask the candidate's running for office what you will do to bring the price of gas down

[thunder35]

by $$1.00 or more not having everyday another run up.

[Tesha]

1. Societally, it's probably better if gas prices continue to rise.

Societally, it's probably better if gas prices continue
to rise.

It would have been *FAR BETTER* if it had been done via
gasoline taxes rather than obscene oil company profits
because then we could have used the revenues to build
mass transit and other infrastructure, but given that
the oil will eventually run short, it's just as well
if prices remain high and people start adapting to life
without cheap gasoline.

You know, it's funny: Back when gas cost a buck or so,
the Republicans had everone convinced that a $0.50/gallon
gas tax would be the end of the country. But they didn't
seem nearly as concerned about $2.00/gallon in excess
oil company profits, did they? And somehow, we're still
soldiering on with gas at $3.00/gallon and rising. Maybe
we should *STILL* impose that $0.50/gallon tax and build
some post-oil-age infrastructure?

Tesha

[RC]

2. Naaa, just nationalize the oil companies and take the obscene profits

and use that money for alternative energy research. With that kind of money we could make gasoline out of water and carbon dioxide.

[Tesha]

3. Okay -- that approach also works for me. (NT)