Posted on 05/10/2006 7:54:36 AM PDT by SmithL
No wait, not 6. To hell with that. Make it 10. Ten bucks a gallon, no matter what the going rate for a barrel of light, sweet crude. That would so completely, violently, brilliantly do it. Revolutionize the country. Firebomb our pungent stasis. Change everything. Don't you agree?
Here's what we could do: Give gas discounts to cabdrivers (at least initially), metro transit systems and low-income folks, those who have to drive their busted-up '78 Honda Civics to their jobs scrubbing restaurant toilets and flipping burgers and vacuuming the residual cocaine from the seat cushions of numb SUV owners. Everyone else, 10 bucks a gallon, across the board. Eleven for premium.
It would take some finessing. Maybe also give a price break to some truckers and trucking companies (so vital to the economy), but not so much to global delivery companies (FedEx, DSL, et al), because that would force them to raise shipping rates and force you (and me) to reconsider buying everything online and hence encourage you to shop locally, thus reviving a stagnant local economy.
Voila -- gas crisis, oil crisis, warmongering agenda, pollution issues, road rage, traffic congestion, urban decay, oil profiteering -- all completely, almost totally, somewhat solved. Or at the very least, dramatically, gloriously shifted toward ... I don't know what. Something better. Something more humane, less greedy, more sustainable. Could it work? How outraged would you be to have to pay that much for gas? How long would that feeling last?
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
`nuff said!
Meow!!
He really sends the fur flyin' on this one.
That's gonna leave a mark!
BTW, in his mind, WHERE does the $10 go after it is collected by the retailer????? WHO gets the money? How is it broken up/distributed? By what mechanism is the price RASIED to a uniform $10/gallon?
Oh, I forgot, those are rational questions.
By the way, this sort of thing might just happen, but due to market forces. Then we'll adjust, as usual...
A collapse of the world economy. What a genius. That is exactly what the Islamofascists want.
how bout instead we make san fran its own retarded country.
What about gays, illegal aliens, native americans?
Better yet just surcharge all white males.
He's really thinking about $10 an ass.
This rant is typical of the crap that is generated in Sodom and Gomorrah...err San Franciso on a regular basis.
When is the next "Big One" supposed to happen?
The end of the commuter Bay Area economy.
Want to cause a depression? Make gas $10 a gallon. What a schmuck.
Taxes, of course.
want to change the world? tax people triple who want to increase taxes.
Memo
To: Traffic Dept.
Subject: 2007 Lease agreement
Ann:
Cancel plans to proceed with leasing of Chrysler 300's for the sales force.
Investigate market for used '78 Honda Civics
This could result in a windfall savings for operations costs.
Let's make Vaseline $50 a jar instead.
"Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also teaches yoga, subscribes to magazines, admires trees, detests shrill alarmism (including his own),...."
To the government of course. Only the elite in Washington know how to best redistribute our money to the poor women, crippled children, and oppressed minorities.
Yea that Morford twit, he's so brilliant.
I'm sure I'll get to keep my job when the company has to shell out $2 per mile on travel expenses and a simple $300 airfare turns into $1,000 bucks.
But what the hey, Moron , er I mean Morford can keep his twit writing job and I can live on the Gov. dole as he shells out 85% of his income in taxes.
It is incoherent!
Let's make Vaseline $50 a jar instead.
BWAAAHAHAHA!!! Now THAT would ruin the local SanFran economy.
LOL !!
Who the F is “DSL?”
DHL perhaps?
Sounds a lot like Weird Al's Earth in the Balance.
"Let's make Vaseline $50 a jar instead."
Priceless!!!!
Let's see how attractive he considers that idea when the first Molotov cocktails roll into the faculty lounges at his favorite left wing universites.
The San Fran Chronicknucklehead represents simple America.
Nuts, Fruits, raisins are all so smart. No wonder why the Feinsteins and Pelosi's have a job. They represent the smartest ideas that seem to come from California.
But then something remarkable would happen. Over a short blip of time -- say about 10 or 20 years, as gun manufacturing ceased and the culture of gun violence died down and our favorite death object was less visible in the news and in video games and on TV and in every aspect of modern life, well, guess what? Guns would begin to disappear. From the culture, from the drug dealers, from the streets, from public consciousness. They would turn into a sad relic, like eight-track tapes, like the bubonic plague, like the Miami Sound Machine. Think 20 years is too long? It is but an eye blink, a twitch.
Damn, it was hard to pick just one thing out of all his tripe to highlight. Getting rid of all guns, getting rid of all ammo production. OK, so in 20 years we will have fewer guns and almost no ammo - except for the stuff smuggled in. Like everything else that is currently smuggled in. And only the criminals would be getting their hands on this black market supply. Great idea!
Not only that, but you get the current UK problem - getting robbed/mugged/assaulted by a musclehead with a spiked club. They call the gun the "great equalizer" for a reason.
This sad little man provides a great modern definition of a communist. Stupid and pathetic.
He forgot to exempt the trucks that deliver the SF Rag, aka cat pan liner, to its subscribers. Otherwise, the price of the newspaper would rise to about $5.00 a day and it would be cheaper to buy real cat litter instead of using the paper.
Want to change the world? Firing Mark Morford would be a good start.
Dang liberals are such idiots. What he doesn't have a clue about is that he would create a huge black market gas industry of the "noble poor" drivers filling up and then driving it to the "evil conservative SUV" drivers to resell it to them for less than his "$10 to everyone plan". Liberals never think about consequences of their naive plans do they?
Liberals want to tax gasoline $10 a gallon to punish SUV owners and force conservation...but let normal market forces drive gasoline to $3 and suddenly it's ALL BUSH'S FAULT! Destroying the economy! Culture of corruption! Big Oil! Liberals are such hypocrites.
"residual cocaine from the seat cushions of numb SUV owners"
Could these people possibly be any more predictable?
Morford is the perfect example of why children should have limited access to the internet.
Who the F is "DSL?". Well, that's the name on the pink truck that delivers my internet stuff every night, while I'm sleeping.
I can see it now. The nation innundated by smug Prius owners carrying champagne classes around so they can capture the smell of their own self righteous emissions. (Oh, wait, we mostly have that already.)
On the other hand, imagine gas below $2.00/gal. Giant, monster pick-em-ups painted in wild confederate battleflag designs running terrified hybrid owners right the bejeezuz off the road and into the cow pastures. Oh, make it so . . .
The city that reads the San Francisco Chronicle, reads Mark Morford, thinks of Dykes on Bikes as both "mainstream" in its community and a tourist attraction, is the same city that elects the likes of Comrade Nancy the Monthlyfacelift Pelosi to Congress where she hopes to be the next Speaker of the House in order to San Franciscoize America as a whole.
"Morford" signs can still be seen at the entrances of some British alehouses warning patrons that the floor might be slippery.
Does he?
Ah, Geez, not this @#%$ again!
The dollar is going down.
Intentionally. Blame the G7 and Chuck Schumer.
BUMP
Dear BlackElk,
I figure San Francisco's living on borrowed time. Buy land in Nevada. It'll be oceanfront soon enough.
sitetest
Why not? It IS petroleum, right?
YANKEEDAME: Want to change the world? Make gas 75c a gallon.
(I mean, hey, two any number can play at this game.)
Synopsis of the article:
"Make people I don't like pay more for stuff".
Whadda friggin' genius.
He also does not offer a suitable replacement for petroleum and all of its by-products. Because there isn't one. Not even "Utopium". Oil is the most utile substance on the Earth. Without it, the world would revert to pre-industrial revoltion standards and life expectancy.
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