We had it back in the mid-70s in response to the oil embargo. Nowadays with gas prices so high, it makes sense to bring it back. When Bill Clinton repealed the law in 1995, gas was at about $1.09 a gallon. Times are much different now, obviously.

Here are some of the arguments I’ve heard against this:

1. “People won’t comply with it” (well then, start handing out more tickets, and increase the fines, and then that’ll teach people)
2. “States may ignore it” (well then do what the Nixon administration did, and withhold federal highway funds from the states if they don’t enforce it)
3. “People will be late” (that’s their problem for not leaving the house early enough)

Even with gas prices so ridiculously high, most Americans don’t seem too interested in slowing down to conserve gas, even as they b-tch about the high cost at the pumps.

Conservation is something Americans just don’t have in them. So we need to be forced. It’s for our own good.

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