$10/gal gas isn't going to just cause "SUV gluttons" to discard a few luxuries and trade that Escalate for a Smart.

It's going to drive up the cost of anything and everything at the grocery store that depends on fossil fuels to be produced or transported.

Mr. Escalade Guy will drive his Smart, and Mr. Minimum Wage Guy will drive his non-efficient car (that he now has to muster up $2500 instead of $1000 to buy) and go get some $3 celery sticks and a few $5 boxes of Jiffy corn muffin mix to feed his family.

And he'll probably be doing it with food stamps, that oughtta git yer blood a-boilin'

That would be great if it would happen, but I'll bet these cars won't end up in your local Pull-A-Part. Straight to the crusher, more likely.

And even if I'm wrong, said motorhead will probably be paying a lot more at the junkyard, because the cars the junkyards normally pay $40 for will now be worth something. Not to mention that a "salvage" title will rip the bottom out of his project car's investment potential, thus removing the incentive to restore it.

Hear, hear. Doesn't anybody realize, what this will effectively to is raise the minimum price of a used car. All the sub-$2500 used cars out there (of which there are plenty) will be gone overnight because people who don't need them will be buying up these decent running cars and scrapping them for profit. And I know an individual will get a limited number of "vouchers" but I'm sure I'm not alone in the fact that I have a sister, a brother, parents and cousins, all of whom enjoy money.

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