[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by davephan

If they can’t afford to fill their gas tank, then they need to be responsible people and work longer and harder to earn enough money to live their lives in a responsible manner.

One time, I tried to help one of those fools on the shoulder of a freeway, that ran out of gas. I could have gotten myself killed doing that for a fool. I never did that again.

During the period of time decades ago, when the gasoline prices rose from 50 cents a gallon to a dollar a gallon, there were pilots of single engine airplanes that ended up running out of fuel. They landed their aircraft on the freeways in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. The FAA changed the rules for pilots. If they have to land on a road because they ran out of fuel, then they lose their pilots license permanently. Shortly after the rules were changed, the pilots of the single engine planes stopped landing on the freeways because they ran out of fuel. The risk of losing their pilots license permanently caused a change in those pilots behavior, and they no longer had to land away from an airport, due to running out of fuel.

So is your suggestion that anyone who has to call for road service due to an empty tank lose their driver's license permanently?????