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I'd be curious to see exactly how high the price has to go before there is any significant impact on consumption. I do know we've barely scratched the surface.
To those that always wheel out the 'effects on transport of goods' argument in these discussions: consider this. The preponderance of heavy transportation of goods over great distance has come about exactly because of the availability of cheap fuel and is by no means a given. All that is required is a decentralisation of reources - small scale farming, smaller more distributed shopping districts etc. Heck, that's what we had not so long ago - there's no reason whatsoever that we can't go back to it other than a lack of will.
Of course, the wild variability of petrol prices defies logic. I've seen the price vary up to 10c/l over the course of ONE DAY. Every visit to the pump is a crap shoot If the government is to do anything about petrol prices, how about some stability, even if it's at the higher price?