Ha ha
Well it wasn't meant to be an official policy statement on behalf of my party campaign
Just a quick response to describe my leanings to more creative and daring social and environmental solutions to complex real world problems instead of pandering to the political class and the obvious
One is reminded of the fuel crisis in Britain in the 70's when the UK government set a maximum spend at a fuel station of £5
What happened
Well everyone went out that evening to fill up to spend their £5 maximum - queues at stations and the UK ran out of fuel at the pumps in 48 hours
Not very clever but seemed the obvious thing to for the government to do
What did the Irish government do ?
They thought outside the box and imposed a MINIMUM spend at the pumps
What happened?
Nothing much - very few people could fill up as they already had fuel in their tanks
Everyone rode around happy as normal using up their petrol that they already had and Ireland was awash with fuel
Clever
