Kruse

walt peifer wrote:
> remember when unleaded fuel first cam out? You could stick an unleaded
> nozzle in a leaded fuel car but you couldn't pump leaded fuel into an
> unleaded vehicle.
> could we do something like that again?

If you also remember when unleaded came out, there was a little plastic
adapter that you could slip over the nozzle and then you could put
regular gas into an unleaded tank. These things were labeled "for
emergency use only when unleaded gas is not available". Everybody used
these things and then they wondered why their catalytic converter
plugged up. I knew of an entire POLICE FORCE that hollowed out their
catalytic converters and ran regular gas and these people were supposed
to uphold the law.

Fast forward to now. How would you enforce this? What would stop people
from buying their gas in 5 gallon cans and taking their cheap gas and
putting it in their gas guzzling vehicles. Also, can you imagine the
outcry that the public would have? And who would police this? Gas
station attendants, the law inforcement police? Another government
agency setup just to prosecute these people?

Imagine if you were in line at McDonalds and the first person ordered a
BigMac combo meal and paid $4. Then the person in front of you ordered
a BigMac combo meal for $4. Then you step up and order your BigMac
combo meal and the person behind the counter charged you $6. Why?
Because the person behind the counter tell you that you weigh 100
pounds more than the first two and you will probably have a heart
attack before the first two people and the extra two bucks goes to a
national life insurance policy fund. Would you like it? Of course not.

I'm not belittling you post and with gas prices going up again
everybody will want to do something. I'm not sure if tiered prices
would help without turning everybody into a criminal.