Fix to the gas crisis in atlanta

[JConner]

read this article

http://townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/09/29/how_to_solve_the_gas_panic

Cliffs:

let the market control itself. Stop investigating gas stations for price gouging....let them gouge the prices! If the price goes up to $8 a gallon that's great! It'll make people stop filling up their cars everytime they can find gas and instead, only when they need it. Price goes up, demand goes down. Simple economics.

[Thighs]

thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard. alot of people wouldnt be able to afford to buy gas at all if they were allowed to gouge it.

just wait another couple weeks til it all blows over.

[whizkid]

It kinda makes sense but in the long run whats to stop them from leaving the price like that and things get worse cause now we have gas but instead of going back to high 3dollar gas it will probably be at 5 everyday.

[JConner]

It kinda makes sense but in the long run whats to stop them from leaving the price like that and things get worse cause now we have gas but instead of going back to high 3dollar gas it will probably be at 5 everyday.

Basic economics...competition among the station owners will cause the price to go back down.

[AnTi-PooN]

^^^word

[Andy_013]

I heard that this morning and think its a great idea. I think it will keep all the people home that buy a few gallons of gas to stay full. In a few day the price to go back down.

[josh green]

We waited in line about 5 minutes today to fill up our work van and people were literally only buying $15 at a time or so. We sat there and watch 3-4 people at one pump while we were pumping in 25 gallons. I spoke with a BP attendant whom was ironically buying fuel at the citgo (BP was out) and he said it would be about another week, that was like thursday night.
The weirdest thing that I have seen is gas stations only having 87 octane left, I was like wtf????Its a great time to have a diesel, you have no lines and no one is out of it.

The plan could backfire and people continue to top off while they can "still afford to."

[D.Choe]

"Bottom line here is that people aren’t going to rush out to fill up their half-empty tanks with $8.00 gas. Instead they’ll buy only what gas is absolutely necessary, and then wait for the prices to come down."

lol shiiiiiiieet that's what I've doing for like a year! everytime I see the gas prices go down I'm there to fill up my tank and then wait it out until I absolutely need it and if the price is way too high I try to wait it out for it to go down again

Neal Boortz does have a good point though, since the demand is extremely high, let the price follow and perhaps people will be forced to get the bare minimum and wait it out until the prices go down from the competitive gas war

on the other hand, things might go out of hand and the prices might stick for an elongated period of time until the "war" begins

[JR VQ 30 de]

it suck that there is only 87 octane gas when my car takes 93 its a pain in the ass trying to find it .

[brwloco]

The whole plan sounds like that it would work but, in a time like this where the unemployment rate is at the highest in record years, we need all the help we can get. Rising the price of gas now is not going to help it-it will make things worst... i just had to cancel a job interview due to gas issues (interview was in Woodstock and I live in Doraville). The people that just fill up half their tank should just wait... not sayin wait till the last drop, but be reasonable leave some for others, THERE WILL BE MORE GAS JUST WAIT!!

[HyPer50]

What difference does it make up when people fill up? They still use the same amount of gas (aside from the gas used in lines).. Price gouging = no good, I don't want to pay 10 bucks a gallon...

[xlilvi3tx]

That article was pretty dumb even though i can agree with a little of it. People is always going to pay for gas no matter how high the price gets, people need to get to places such as work and etc. It is true that people will cut back like ride with friends or take the bus or maybe a old fashion bike but it still won't stop people from buying it still. Remember when it was just a little over a dollar? Now it almost four times the gas price back then and people still buying. If people really want to **** up the economy, get EVERYONE to not even get gas and don't go to work at all and then just watch the company fall apart.

[ChnkyLao]

eh $8 a gallon its bad enough one day of driving to work or school is about$10, now $20?

eh honestly $8 bucks a gallon would horribly screw alot of things up, can't afford gas to get to school, no one could afford to gas to tip me at my job, my entire lively hood depends on tips, so there is no point in driving to work if i'm not gonna make any money,

so i'll probably end up staying home and being a bum, killing my savings to pay for bills while knowing there won't be much income or none coming in at all,

[2turbo4u]

My buddy texted me from N.J and he seen $2.98 agallon on route 1&9 in Jersey. He lives in Fla.where it was $3.65 when he left.

[Cool Cat Racing]

That's what happens when you're 20 minutes from one of the largest refineries in the country.

[blackshine007]

That has got to be one of the dumbest single minded answer I have ever heard from Neal Boortz. That dude can afford $8 a gallon. Our crashing economy cannot afford that. Who would want to go out to eat, go shopping or anything that involves keeping the market flowing when all they're doing is feeding the gas tank. I understand the point he was making but honestly, he should've thought that through instead of venting.