[Tarpon]

All that will do is raise consumption, empty the gas stations tanks and worsen the shortage. We simply need more refining capacity -- It's not price.

Just wait, the shortages and long lines will follow. Write this down.

[Adam-ondi-Ahman]

All that will do is raise consumption, empty the gas stations tanks and worsen the shortage. We simply need more refining capacity -- It's not price.
Just wait, the shortages and long lines will follow. Write this down.

I'm completely against gas taxes but this will only serve to increase demand on an already strained supply.
It may actually make the gas lines worse.

Tarpon and Reagan Disciple, you are spot on!

[Wyatt's Torch]

All that will do is raise consumption, empty the gas stations tanks and worsen the shortage. We simply need more refining capacity -- It's not price. Just wait, the shortages and long lines will follow. Write this down.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! I'm a Perdue fan but this is a dumb move. It will only exacerbate the shortages. Oh, and who is going to make sure the gas stations don't just merely pocket the difference? Very dumb move right now.

[Trust but Verify]

Oh no, not somebody else who gets it!

[cake_crumb]

"We simply need more refining capacity -- It's not price. "

At the moment it's price due to a shortage in production because of the refineries offline in MI and LA as well as offshore rigs in the Gulf being offline. It'll be a month before that mess is straightened out.

IT IS a good time to consider building new refineries and get the red tape finished for oil exploration in ANWR, but the refineries will take years to go online and ANWR will take more than a year if the paperwork were filed by interested companies today.

The moratorium on fuel additives by the president is to offset this immediate and LOOMING problem - though it's only for 2 weeks and IMO two weeks isn't enough. The tax moratorium by Georgia's governor is to help the local economy from being squeezed to death by sky-high gas prices. Even though some people tritely inform us we must use less, everyone who works uses a certain minimum below which they cannot go.

[X-FID]

Just wait, the shortages and long lines will follow. Write this down.

Man I hope not, I can ride out the price gouging for a while, but I hope to never see lines again.