I don't think so. Different people have different traveling needs. It would be great if we could all keep our miles down, but sometimes we can't. If you have a sick parent that lives 250 miles away you're likely to need more than 20 gallons per week. I think what is important is how efficiently we drive the miles that we do drive.

If every car had the same gas mileage then you might have a point, but unfortunately it generally takes a higher-income person to own a high mileage vehicle, and lower-income folks generally own low mileage vehicles. So your plan would unfairly punish the poor and reward the upper middle and upper class. It isn't fair at all.

It sounds equal, but I don't think that I see how rationing would reduce the prices. Usually rationing merely drives up prices of black market goods and ruins people financially who actually need them.

That is a good idea - But there are so many different cars,trucks and reasons why people have to come and go as they do

I think it would only be fair if you gave people time to get a car that might get better gas mileage. You would be severely punishing someone with an old, big gas guzzler if you told them tomorrow they would only get 20 gallons a week. My wife is in sales, and she probably uses 50 gallons per week, at least. People would have to have time to adjust for it to be fair.

I dont think it would be fair at all...you might as well call us the republic of the united states. This is the way russians were treated during the USSR era...rationing out food, gas , etc...plus you take away peoples right to be free and travel...if I want to go visit my mom and she lives 900 miles away...at only 20 gallons a week it would take me 5 weeks to get to her....so no...that is not a good idea....;)

Economics-wise rationing is not a good measure, since for some people it wouldn´t be fair.The price system would take care of the problem efficiently.The government could subsidize those public transportation systems that use gas.

This is a very bad idea. I agree with Bob Blaylock.....I too currently drive 500 miles a week back and forth to work only.

Rationing is the answer but do it as they did during the Oil Embargo of 1973. Odd/even license plate rationing. Only odd plates can get gas on odd dates and even plates on even dates. Pretty easy and you wouldn't believe how fast the prices will fall.

Americans think they should have all the gas they want. There is only so much gas that will come from the earth and then it will be gone. People will see an actual "Road Warrior" situation before it is gone. Then all the sissy people will have to move to the temperate zones to survive. When i worked, i lived in the city close to my job as to not waste gas and time driving to work. When i retired i moved to the country and only drive to town 10 times a year. I have oil heat but don't use it, i burn wood. I walk around and pick up any and all branches and cut dead trees. It makes a nice property and heats with renewable energy. I figure i use 90 gallons of gas and 50 gallons of oil per year. That's in all my gas powered toys and truck. If everyone in this country tried to conserve, we would be looking for another country to buy our oil. But Americans would rather waste gas than pay their mortgages, now our economy is going to hell. Why that bothers me is because i had to buy my retirement plan, i saved all i can and is in bank stocks. I lost over $74,000 now which you might say i paid for gas for the greedy scum in america. Most Americans seem to think the government is going to bail them out when they become homeless, think again ! I was homeless for awhile, it sucks ! Try digging in a dumpster for food and sleeping on a piece of plywood shoved in a sewer pipe draining in a river. Now i got to look forward to selling and moving to the city and work till the day i die. All because i bought the wrong stocks, i should have bought oil stocks like George Bush did. I definately believe we should have gas rationing of 5 gallons a week for everyone. Also no more than 1 tank of heating oil per year. If we did that for a year, i'm sure prices will come down to $2/gal gas.

I do emergency roadside assistance for State Farm customers. Which customers should I ignore because I have reached my "limit" on fuel? Hopefully not someone you know during an emergency.

well no...if all these greedy bastards who bleed the motorist bloody dry with sky high prices and the thieving government who makes even more from taxes the higher the price where made to put the proper amounts of money to public transport then more people would use it ..thus less fuel used ...but no ..lets bend over and fuck the driver again

No it would just piss everybody off even more.

SOLUTION TO HIGH GAS PRICES Of the total amount of gasoline consumed in the United States a significant portion is for essential travel purposes, i.e., to and from work. The balance is consumed for discretionary purposes and commercial traffic. It is the high prices for essential travel that is hurting the average working American. To address the issue, gasoline supplies should be rationed for essential travel and sold to individuals at a fixed price of $1.50 per gallon. The balance of the gasoline supplies would be sold at market prices. For example, when you drive into a gas station you will find two types of pumps. One set of pumps would be for “essential gas” and the other set of pumps would be for “market gas”. Each individual would be issued an essential gas card that would allow the “essential gas” pump to operate for a pre-determined amount of gas for a calendar week or month or year. Perhaps the amount allowed would be 80% of the perceived need for essential gas. The other 20% and all discretionary gas would have to be purchased at the “market gas” pumps. If essential gas can be purchased at $1.50 per gallon and market gas purchased at $5.00+ per gallon, it would relieve the financial burden on American families and hopefully reduce the wasteful use of this precious resource. Since the supply of oil is limited, this approach should be implemented in conjunction with a massive program to find alternative energy to drive the transportation systems. The bottom line is that the $1.50 gas would be subsidized by the market gas users, which typically would be purchased by people who can afford to waste gas.