Reply #50: Well, nobody has managed to explain how shutting down the roadways will help to solve the problem. [View All]

[idovoodoo]

Will that somehow increase the supply of oil? Like it or not the laws of supply and demand still determine the price of commodities. Sure there's speculation that sometimes unduly influences it in the near future but it still evens out according to the fundamental principle fairly quick.

To the extent gas prices drive inflation, that isn't something a politician, or a new president can 'fix' because it's not
caused so much by bad policy as by the behavior of way too many humans. I'm not sure you're willing to accept the most efficient solutions to THAT part of the problem.