"Bob" wrote in news:1169686861.276597.271040@
13g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob



You don't remember "price controls" put on everything by the socialists in
the US Gummit back a few decades? Remember the gas lines? food lines?
Scarcity as products were diverted away from price controls to free market
areas?

Yecch...how soon we forget.

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

On Jan 24, 9:27 pm, Larry wrote:
"Bob" wrote in news:1169686861.276597.271040@
13g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
BobYou don't remember "price controls" put on everything by the socialists in
the US Gummit back a few decades? Remember the gas lines? food lines?
Scarcity as products were diverted away from price controls to free market
areas?

Yecch...how soon we forget.

Larry

When I was a kid i fond something called a ration card for fuel. I
asked my mom about it. She described how fuel, rubber, sugar, and other
things were rationed in the war.
Seemed to work just fine then.
But then there werent any Republicans crying about big government.
Bob

On 24 Jan 2007 22:10:15 -0800, "Bob" wrote:

When I was a kid i fond something called a ration card for fuel. I
asked my mom about it. She described how fuel, rubber, sugar, and other
things were rationed in the war.

Seemed to work just fine then.

Not really. How many gallons do you suppose would be allowed for your
boat(s)?

Be careful what you ask for. The one thing worse than expensive fuel
is no fuel at any price.

Wayne.B wrote:

On 24 Jan 2007 22:10:15 -0800, "Bob" wrote:


When I was a kid i fond something called a ration card for fuel. I
asked my mom about it. She described how fuel, rubber, sugar, and other
things were rationed in the war.


Seemed to work just fine then.


Not really. How many gallons do you suppose would be allowed for your
boat(s)?

Be careful what you ask for. The one thing worse than expensive fuel
is no fuel at any price.


That's only ONE thing that would be worse than expensive fuel.

"Bob" wrote in news:1169705411.283435.123190
@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

Seemed to work just fine then.


But, then again, you and I didn't LIVE through rationing in WW2.

I lived through "rationing" in the bogus "fuel shortage" of 1973, where
all the gas stations, full to overflowing with gas, were simply closed to
boost the prices. At the time, I owned a motorhome with saddle tanks and
they opened the stations one day a week with no limits on how much you
could buy. I filled the motorhome and parked it at home with 70 gallons
of gas in it. To go with the motorhome, I had a little Honda 90
motorcycle for local transportation when vacationing in the motorhome. I
drove the Honda, except on really rainy days, for the rest of the "gas
crisis", which was totally bogus.

My uncle is a private pilot. He took a news photographer, from the local
newspaper in PA, for a ride out over the ocean during the crisis to show
him the huge line of tankers waiting offshore to come into port and dump
all the gas aboard. Bogus, just a battle between America and Big Oil to
jack the prices to current levels.

Just like the inflated price of a car, truck or SUV....we've gotten used
to it. The Federal Reserve Bankers win again.....

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.