Have you ever noticed that one week you see gas at a certain price and you think "Wow, that is way to high," and then a few weeks later you are saying that you wished that the price of gas would go back to that price? Well I had that thought today.
I think this is what a lot of people are going to be saying soon. ABC says that some people could see up to $5/gallon gas during the summer time. If this happens, we will be seeing a lot of people walking and riding bikes. What I want to know is why we let the price keep going up. The last time it was this high was in 1981. By the late 1990's gas was under $1.50 for a nation wide average. Why is it that we are letting them hike the price of gas up. People keep saying that they are looking for alternative flues. LOOK HARDER. The electric hybrids that are out on the market today still require gas unless you plan to only drive for like two blocks a day. That is not a reliable alternate. I drive about 60 miles daily to get back and forth to school. I put about two tank fulls of gas in my car per week. Right now that is costing me about $80 dollars. I will not be able to afford college if gas goes up any further. Not only will I not be able to attend the classes that I am paying for, people are not going to be able to eat because the gas prices will be hiking up the prices for food.
A good result of this is we may see more farmers selling their meat locally while local butchers and farmers sell the fresh produce at local stores. I can see a trend developing where communities in America become closer knit. Where business booms in the local market because people are not going to be wanting to spend the extra gas and money to go out of town to shop. I say welcome back 1960's style shopping, before wal-mart and industrialized shopping. Welcome back to the flourishing of small town communities.
If gas continues to go up, I hope that the local markets grow. I also hope that industry takes a hint and tries harder to locate another way to travel that will not rely on something so trivial as oil. There are ways out there, I just know it. But for the time being I am going to invest in a bike and ride that around my local town.
I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
As a delivery driver, gas prices are something I put way too much thought into then I would enjoy. I search every gas station through an app I have and sometimes drive around town looking for the cheapest place. That in its self is making me use gas. I don't get very much reimbursement so if it goes up to $5 a gallon, I don't know what I will do. We can't ride bikes because some places are way out there. And, we will get to sweaty to do that kind of thing. It really sucks.
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