Doitzel wrote:Liuzzo wrote:
Well to start our country is quite large and requires massive interstate highways systems. Next you'd have to consider that mass transit is therefor not an option except in our large cities. The cities are where massive amounts of jobs are located but there is very limited housing. People therefor are required to commute a great distance. A large number of those people use trains but they still need to drive to those train stations to be able to hope the ride. Oh, and our government is beholden to oil companies and refuses to break free from them even if the people want it. The US is not Europe where you can get around by training easily. We need more high speed rail lines but the support for them is not there like it should be.
Maybe it would be if the price of gasoline doubled or tripled.
the affect of gas prices would be minimal relatively speaking for basic transport costs overall in the USas people will adjust accordingly. where it will affect everything is in the industrial portion from manufacturing costs to transportation of goods... using US dollars think about this everything in the US that gets consumed is moved via freight and the price of anything we use is directly affected by transport cost take milk for exmple. current average cost $2.99 per gallon (guesstimate based on what i pay) if gas goes to $7+ price for milk will triple as well. it may not sound like alot but given alot of families struggling to keep food on the table for their families due to piss poor income levels vs cost of living the increase in fuel price would completely kill the US and its infrastructure. Freight would stop moving because people would stop buying a huge portion of consumable goods, drivers and freight handlers would lose jobs due to loss of product sales, manufacturing and processing would be forced to cut production due to decrease in demand which would result in further job loss, farms would go under, factories would go under, transport companies would go under, grocery stores would go under, retail stores would go under, etc... its all trickle down in the wrong direction... long story short $7+ gas prices in this country within the next 5 years and this country wont have a recession to deal with it will be a depression worse than 1929 was... feel free to do some research peeps, the US wasnt the only economy affected then and wont be if it happens again. you people need to see the big picture as to what will happen... not just say "less cars = less emisions" true, but it also means loss of jobs + loss of homes + loss of GDP + loss of exports and imports + loss of taxable income + loss of reliable infrastructure = depression in US = depression world wide..... $7 gas in US happens and your all fucked