Hey can we all do that, just like, all the time? That'd be nice.
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Seems to me that the answer here should be a substantial tax on petrol.
Which basically, exclusively punishes the lower class?
No, it hurts the status-seeking middle class, last I checked, lower class doesn't really have a lot of cars.
Dunno about Denmark, but in my experience the higher class get to live wherever they want closer to their jobs, and probably own multiple cars they optionally drive short distances to show off.
Whereas the working everday folks gotta drive their 2008 Honda-of-Theseus MANY more miles in commute from outside the city, daily, hoping that expensive rattly motor mount can hold until pay week before it fails.
So taxing the heck out of fuel would hurt the working class a ton more.
I'd prefer a tax on private jets and a subsidy to switch your car for an (electric) bicycle.
Perhaps, but we shouldn't subsidise burning the planet.
Yes, but oh my goodness have you pondered the depths of that abyss. You can't spell fossil fuels without subsidy. It's just fo___l f_el_.
Confused. Is Denmark footing the bill for their citizens' oil? Seems like you would just say "hey, oil is expensive now - if you drive for no reason you're a dumbass, but I won't stop you."
Are you by chance American and a free market fundamentalist or a rugged individualist?
A country asking its citizens publicly to pull together in adressing national risks is a very normal healthy thing to do. It offers obvious direct benefits. That you are confused by this, I find disturbing.
Edit: consider the possibility that your cultural programming may be incorrect in at least some important ways.
Maybe Denmark cares about preventing actual shortages, or about the damage wasteful driving with high gas prices does to the economy as a whole.
Oil costs are going to affect transportation costs all over the board, food, clothes, construction materials... so trying to reduce consumers consumption of oil can help to reduce that impact on the rest of economy. I don't think is going to actually work, but politicians needs to start planting the seed of scapegoats for the future.
Ah. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Then when prices increase or rationing starts, they can point back and say "guys, we told you to use less gas!"
the supply is going to be limited if this goes on
agriculture and logistics need fuel more than joe drivearound
We're like 2 days in and they're already going into their reserves which aren't large enough for supply to be constrained for very long.
Are these, like, strategic reserves for the purposes of national security? I honestly know nothing about how this sort of thing should function, but I feel like if a nation is drawing down their reserves, they should implement a rationing system. Or else set a high price for the use of their reserves so that consumers will search for other options
Prices are also going up but its more to prevent economic stalling, which I suppose can be considered national security. High oil prices causes across board inflation. I'm sure the armed forces have a separate reserve.
Rationing is a more extreme measure.
If prices are high only the poor are affected. If you are rich and waste gas you aren't affected. But if you are rich and save gas, it keeps prices lower for those that can't afford it.
Most of the poor are on buses, trains or bikes, all of which are pretty good in Denmark. They can't afford to fund cars and their random repair expenses.