Soaring Price of Gasoline
| by Noelle | Views: 352 |
Wonderful news again for us, Crude Oil prices are now above $135 per barrel in New York. What the heck is going on? And why isn’t anyone doing anything about it other than talking about the fact that it could go higher?
I heard an unsympathetic person state that we shouldn’t complain, Europeans pay a lot more per gallon than we do even at the latest hiked up prices. But I don’t care about what Europeans pay or don’t pay. I don’t live in Europe or India or elsewhere.
This is America and I care about what we Americans pay. Why is this happening now? WHY now and not for the past 20 or so years?
We need to find a way to safely and without disrupting the environment drill oil from all those oil resources that I keep hearing about across the US.
AND
Force the automotive companies to create NO other vehicles other than those which will run on alternative energy
AND
Find a way to take all those vehicles that are currently running with gasoline to retrofit them with a new option that is non-gasoline dependent.
Yes, easier said than done, but come on, lets get the politicians’ hands out of the oil lobby pockets and we can make this happen. And let’s take all the geniuses in the country, all those Nobel Peace Prize winners, scientists, and researchers to come up with a solution to our oil and energy crisis.
I remember the $0.99 per gallon gasoline that I used to buy until about two or three years ago. I want it back - 
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 1:36 am
Well, global warming is evident for rising prices of gasoline. If only billions were not spent on futile war to search for WMD — I am sure the prices would have remained stable.
I hate the price rise — which is increasing cost of everything, not just gasoline…
Regds,
VB
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
Could not agree more. This is ridiculous. I hope McCain or Obama have some plan
Maybe reduce the work week to 4 or
Companies should encourage people to work from home
or else
employees should start calling in sick:
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The only solution is the development of a full fledged electric car and/or a hybrid that consumes minimum of gasoline.
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 am
I just came to know that some Indian students in Punjab have come up with a car which runs 180 miles in one liter of gasoline.
Hard to believe but if it is true, how exciting.
I agree with Ram that a full fledged electric car would be the only solution in long term - provided electricity remains cheaper
Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Hi,
May be they should worry about this more than the elections !
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
There is ONE positive aspect of this obsurd gasoline event of our times and that is that combined with the finally serious media attention to global warming, or really climate change, the U.S. is getting serious about alternative enery sources. We have had this kind of thing in the past and there was a short lived crusade to slow down on gas (when the federal government made 65 miles per hour the maximum speed limit and cities started turning off unnessary lights, etc. In time, however, the media lost interest in making it the headline story and we all went back to consuming as much energy as we could. Somehow, we all went to buying the biggest sized SUV’s and largest, fastest engines we could and went crazy again. We have been so arragant in how we consume energy in this county that we frankly needed this to hit us hard to wake us up!
It is time we started thinking of how we affect the planet and we can do things in ways that save us money, but the problem is so HUGE, that it will take the federal government to place demands on everything, starting with where we get our current oil supplies to spending LOTS of money to encourage new energy sources. The inventions are there…but the focus HAS to remain for a real change to happen.
All of us can do things, but that is only a grand of sand on a beach of the resolution. The government has to put it’s foot down and begin a new direction that will go on indefinately!!! Thd day of fosil fuels being our main source of energy is DONE and we have to realize it and insure it. If elected officials do not serve that purpose in thier FIRST electied term, then we need to remove them at the next vote! Politicians need to know that they only get ONE chance to do their job or else we will replace them!