Gasoline cost solutions. More public transit?

The bay area metro, public buses,walking\biking, Subway. Rickshaw.

Given more traffic and basic economic principles. If prices go up as demand exceeds supply. Only two solutions really exist.
1 increase supply\decrease cost of production. Or 2. Decrease demand\ reduce amount needed (increase efficience) \create alternatives (electric cars, HASNT helped much)

There are still two main solutions
1. Agricultural based fuel such as gasoline from hemp oil; or Biodeisel ( fryer oil kinda thing).
2. Alternatives ex. Passenger rail, zip lines, waterways. Public transit etc.
Therefore how to lower gas prices?
I just spelled out the best options.

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Patriot96 · 56-60, C

Basic economic principles. People will find alternatives

jehova · 31-35, M

@Patriot96 what would you suggest as best for your area? Increases in gasoline prices has never much reduced the number of drivers.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@jehova we live in rural area. No public trans, a few live within bicycle didtance of twon but its not convenient for shopping. Cars and pickup trucks are needed

jehova · 31-35, M

@Patriot96 ok maybe trolley cars or zip lines? My favorite is car lifts.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Patriot96 You do realize that a huge part of what's about to happen to the price of oil is your fault, right? Trump and his tariffs are going to send prices through the roof. So don't sit there and lecture people on basic economics.

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

@LordShadowfire no dummy, domestic oil will be cheaper, . Fiden curtailed domestic drilling and imported foreign oil after selling off our strategic reserves

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jehova · 31-35, M

@Patriot96 i did not support trump. If we just return to hemp oil production, gasoline would be 1$ instead we import "drilled" oil to then refine into gasoline. That scam started around 1928. So can we really blame trump for all the legislators Rockefeller bought out?

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Patriot96

no dummy...

Now, here I am, trying to be new better Shadowfire, not insulting people, and what do I get for my troubles?

...domestic oil will be cheaper,

Interesting. And where do you propose we get it? Fracking? I know that's a popular one among people who don't want poor folks to be allowed to breathe.

jehova · 31-35, M

@LordShadowfire hemp oil. Specifically until the prohibition of cannabis in 1938 (The marihuana Tax Act of 1937) gasoline was derived from the species Cannabis Rhudderalis Kentucki native hemp of North America 300 barrels an acre prior to 1938.