Don Klipstein wrote:

Those that can afford gas guzzlers are bidding up gas prices to
levels that others have trouble affording. I also find it
unconscionable people to consume more of a non-renewable resource
than necessary just because they can afford to do so.


Exactly. Even during the "Oil Crisis," there was never a shortage of oil!
There was a shortage of CHEAP oil!

But people adjusted. Mainly by voting Carter out of office.

And by the way, does your disdain for consumption of non-renewable resources
apply to, oh, let's say, diamonds?

Maybe not. A diamond is forever. Like Herpes.