PaoloSmythe

massive profitisation, due to artificially high pricing of essential comsumables such as oil derived fuels, are useful for one thing.

let me see if you can work it out for yourself using an example of the same technique being used elsewhere.

in london, they have introduced the congestion charge. you pay to drive thru the city centre.

in the months leading up to the introduction of this charge, carefully selected and strategically located traffic lights were sequenced to actually cause more congestion; a red light for 60 seconds, a green light for 15 seconds for busy roads, the opposite for quiet crossing roads etc....

when the charge was introduced (during a school holiday period which instantly reduces rush hour traffic due to no school runs) the traffic lights were phased to the more logical frame work.

whilst everyone was complaining about the new enforced charge to simply drive a car they have already forked out to buy, insure, tax and fuel, the authorities were able to allow the TV film crews and reporters to document the seamless beauty of a moving and efficient street and transport system.... with less pollution.

the solution to our problems were realised, even if it cost us all a little something.

right now, we are seeing expensive living costs and we are all gnashing our teeth. but soon a solution will be proposed which, in any other 'more reasonably managed situation' would be abhorrent. so what might that solution be?

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