tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post38269139629698643..comments2008-05-04T11:51:34.776-05:00MamaFlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581737368708159441noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-62711392619465457322008-05-04T11:51:00.000-05:002008-05-04T11:51:00.000-05:002008-05-04T11:51:00.000-05:00Flo, I think what you have to say is very interesting and I'd love to hear more. My husband has always said the same thing about the cost of fuel elsewhere.MamaFlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581737368708159441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-30982605114523654242008-05-04T11:29:00.000-05:002008-05-04T11:29:00.000-05:002008-05-04T11:29:00.000-05:00I look at it very differently. I think government is part of the problem. I think the capitialist system works when government stays out of it. Oil is going for almost $120 a barrel. Of course the cost of gas is going to be high. The government and environmentalists won't let the gas companies upgrade a lot of their facilities so they are producing gas with 30 year old technology. The gov. and environmentalists won't let even the thought of drilling for our own oil enter the picture. We are sitting on the world's largest supply of low sulfur coal yet Bill Clinton made it impossible for us to dig it up. That would power our electric plants for years thus reducing the demand for oil. Once the demand for oil goes down the price will go down. More importantly, I think, is there is no real research being done into alternative fuel. Hybrid cars are a joke. The fuel cell has possibilities but it's a ways away yet. And nuclear power would be a fantastic way to supply our electrical needs but again the environmental wackos have made it a no go. They been using nuclear energy in Europe, safely, for years. The technology has advanced since Three Mile Island. It's safe, clean, and would reduce our dependence on oil. But no, because of a bad movie in the 80's people are afraid of it. Okay, I'll stop here. Didn't mean to hijack your blog but as a scientist I think I view things slightly different from most people. And just remember, they've been paying $5 a gallon in Europe for years.Flohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03178703086017106765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-39796345499617005802008-05-04T09:30:00.000-05:002008-05-04T09:30:00.000-05:002008-05-04T09:30:00.000-05:00Unfortunately I have no idea if anyone can do anything about the gas prices. It's not as simple as not driving anywhere anymore, it's making everything's (except at Kohl's) prices go up. The only thing B and I have going for us is that we do not have children. Couldn't afford to have them even if we wanted them. Any who could afford cigarettes nowadays? I think they are over $4/pack (though I'm sure if I were still smoking I would have found a way.)Judehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17574539815205140819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-29223210242229436602008-05-03T09:48:00.000-05:002008-05-03T09:48:00.000-05:002008-05-03T09:48:00.000-05:00This is a world wide problem and is hitting us all. On an up note I was reading that someone in Canada has invented a sort of motorcycle that is run using a gyroscope - hardly any fuel consumption and at the moment a speed of 25mph. Birmingham University, England has a further project of a car running on hydrogen and just releasing water vapour out of the exhaust. They currently have these running around the campus. Perhaps this will filter over to the general car market and enable us all to travel virtually free and emission free. Let's hope it's soon though - or we'll be eating those hawthorn leaf sandwiches that were apparently commonplace a few hundred years ago!Kloggershttp://kloggers-randomramblings.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-10257367481522361532008-05-02T20:02:00.000-05:002008-05-02T20:02:00.000-05:002008-05-02T20:02:00.000-05:00How is it that oil companies still record increasing profits while some have to give up something (and not fancy luxuries, but something like meals) just to afford gas to get to work because the price has gone up so far beyond any increase in paycheck over the past handful of years? Because our government has allowed it to happen. I won't get political, but that is just one symptom of so very many things that are wrong right now. Not a day goes by that I don't worry and wonder how close I am to complete financial ruin, and I am smart, educated, employable, hard working, frugal, relatively financially prudent and have my eyes wide, wide open in terror. Scary, scary times. None of this was a logical argument and mostly just my frothy emotions, but I have the same questions. And fears. Today in particular because tough times hit a little closer than makes me comfortable. I feel fortunate to even have a job.maggie's mindhttp://maggiesmind.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-57956998504419530392008-05-02T17:20:00.000-05:002008-05-02T17:20:00.000-05:002008-05-02T17:20:00.000-05:00I don't know about $10 a gallon but I have no doubt it will be $5 a gallon by Independence Day.MamaFlohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581737368708159441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677693422985175025.post-25287899796923807592008-05-02T17:10:00.000-05:002008-05-02T17:10:00.000-05:002008-05-02T17:10:00.000-05:00I'm afraid things are going to bet worse before they get better. And as long as gas prices go up, food prices will go up. I read an article the other day that said gas may hit $10 a gallon before this is over. I can't even imagine.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14768088515383202190noreply@blogger.com