If people only bought just enough enough gas to cover their immediate needs being sure they have enough to get back to the pump it would have the effect of backing up the system capacity. I have heard of this system before, the problem is training the public to do it.
I have been watching for quite some time at almost any hour of the day cars, cars, cars everywhere with only one person in them do any of them work ??. ( Check it out ..LOL ) I think some of these people might be taking say 10 different trips to do 10 things whereas 1 trip like a delivery driver would do it all on one trip and could amount to big savings.
The only place I can see movement on gas price is the tax on it, and laws pertaining to speculation occurances.
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