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To: Scumbria who wrote (133185)	4/23/2001 11:00:28 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, RE: The only energy problem we have in this country is overconsumption and waste. If people carpooled to work, we would completely eliminate our need for foreign oil. It is rather simple supply and demand. We now have very low energy costs in this country. Thus, there is a certain degree of waste. If you want more people to carpool to work, all that would be needed would be a gasoline price about quadruple what we have now, which would make that price in line with a lot of other developed economies. Of course, in line with the law of unintended consequences, we would have to endure a rather extended economic slowdown in exchange for such an extreme tax on the US consumer. And while you may be willing to live with that cost, I don't get the feeling a very substantial number of other US consumers would. Cheap energy is one of the reasons that our country consistently offers more economic opportunity.