I don't think it'll come to this (at least not until AFTER Obama's re-election anyway) but I wonder how much the average American can afford to pay per gallon at the pumps before chaos ensues? Didn't the Energy Secretary (Foo Man) Chu want it at European levels ($8- $9/gallon) before he recently recanted? 🤥

That's one way of scaling down gas consumption. Bring back the bicycle.

bloody spaniard wrote:

Ahem...the Europeans pay that much for a LITER of fuel! A gallon would be more close to 3 times that amount!#-o

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Drill the Glades..!! 👍

DrafterX wrote:

300% more seems unintuitive. I doubt that is what europeans generally pay.

rfenst wrote:

I think a lot of the out-of-whack pricing on the European market is taxation for their many and varied socialist programs.

snowwolf777 wrote:

Drill through the polar bears head if he don't get out of the way.

dubleuhb wrote:

Which they still can't afford.... dare I say Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain? PIGS!

raymallen wrote:

300% more seems unintuitive. I doubt that is what europeans generally pay.

rfenst wrote:

Here is my solution to high gas prices, I am sure I will find lots of support for my unique way of dealing with $5 gas.

I propose that the Government create the Nationalized Employment Exchange Department (NEED) where the people that work in a town in which they don’t live exchange jobs so they can work in their hometowns. Let’s say I live in Schaumburg IL and I work in Deerfield Il, and that you live in Deerfield but work in Schaumburg, the NEED Czar would issue an edit that you and I switch jobs so we would reduce gas consumption and in turn minimize greenhouse emissions, and improve our own personal carbon foot print.

NEED would implement this program through the Employment Relocation Act (aka Obamajobs).

Currently unemployed, under-employed and those that have dropped off the unemployment dole will not qualify for this new exciting program. Those people will have to pay a yearly fine (similar to Obamacare) which would be equivalent to current FICA rates to help support future SS payments for refusing to “get a job”. Also any worker refusing the NEED Obamajobs program will be subject to an additional surtax on wages to help fund the program.

City, State and National Government employees would of course be exempt from any of these programs.

itsawaldo wrote:

You left off Ireland & a few more even less significant countries.
Btw, not to belabor Spain's status because they will eventually fall thanks to their socialist government but they have the 4th largest economy in the EU & a debt load LOWER than Germany's (thanks in part to creative bookkeeping- lol). Forget about Greece, which is just a notch above Albania, once the Spanish go into default the EU "sabra lo que es canela"... 🙏

bloody spaniard wrote:

Use the google...while you're at it look for a conversion table for English to Metric!

DrMaddVibe wrote: