> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Tjalle T Vandergraaf
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:29 AM
. Another
> suggestion that I have been advocating is to go back to
> rationing. Let's face, rationing is the only way to
> distribute scarce resources to all and not to limit their use
> by the rich at the expense of the poor. For example, if we
> assume a reasonable amount of driving per individual as 15
> 000 km (close to 10 000
> miles) and we set a reasonable fuel consumption of 8 L/100 km
> (35 mpg or 28 mpmg(miles per minigallon)), each licenced
> driver could be given coupons that would allow him/her to buy
> 1200 L of gasoline (or diesel fuel) at a reasonable base
> price; anything more would be charged at double or triple the
> base rate with the excess profits going back to the gummint.
Having, in the very middle of my career been a salesman, I can tell you that that is a tax on salesmen and women who have to drive a whole lot. I think it is a great tax because now I am not a saleman but they might have a slightly different view. The problem with ANY scheme of assuming a proper amount for an average person to consume is that it always skewers the other guy but never the guy who thinks the scheme up.
If someone told me that I am only allowed 50,000 miles of air travel a year, I wouldn't see my family very much and wouldn't be able to do my job. I wouldn't like that limit. But if the ticket prices go up, I am free then to figure out what I am willing to forgo in order to travel more than that.
glenn
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