Ripped off at the pump ?

[cali yaris]

You do realize, as a small business owner, that some people might take a dollar they were planning on spending at Micro Image and and use it to buy that more expensive gas instead because they don't have the money for both.

I'm perfectly fine with that. Especially if four million (random high number)\ other people who never heard of me moved closer to work, and we became less dependent on foreign oil.

We are 30% less dependent on foreign oil than we were four years ago.

No thanks to my black Hummer-driving, no-turn-signals, speed-on-my-street, take-up-two-parking-space neighbors.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

I'm perfectly fine with that. Especially if four million (random high number)\ other people who never heard of me moved closer to work, and we became less dependent on foreign oil.

We are 30% less dependent on foreign oil than we were four years ago.

No thanks to my black Hummer-driving, no-turn-signals, speed-on-my-street, take-up-two-parking-space neighbors.

I re people like your neighbors as well. There seem to be even more of them per capita in the Houston area. My area seems to be the only part of the Houston metro where huge SUVs and trucks aren't out of control and one sees an abundance of Prii (Yes, in 2011 Toyota decided that the plural of Prius is Prii). Part of the reason for this MIGHT be that 58% of residents in my area were not born in Texas. I agree that driving less is the best and probably the most green way to help end our dependency on foreign oil, but there are other avenues/methods that will help. Given how many goods are trucked in this country, increasing the price of gas will hurt some people re necessities who can ill afford that increase. I also doubt it would change the behavior of people like your neighbor.