This article here, responds to another regarding choices of groceries or fuel. I agree that it is truley unbelieve that gas prices have reached an ultimate high, it cost over 12 dollars for 3 gallons!! Wow, and to think when I first learn to drive it was only a dollar per gallon. At this rate we are probably looking at 15 dollars a gallon in ten years. The response also considers the theory that gas is a way of population control. Maybe, but I think its just all about money.
If we actually sat down and thought about all the problems that United States is going through: poor economy,increase prices, war, politics, it all comes down to one thing, the fuel prices. What would actually happen if gas went down to 1.50? Well, there would definately be an increase in travel, and travel leads to tourism, and tourism leads to increase sales, which leads to more production, and production leads to job increase, that in turn leads to a stimulate economy. And a stimulated functional economy means that lady standing at the produce item debating rather she should purchase those bananas or use the money for fuel can stop worrying and do what she needs to do. Wow, I think I just solved the economy problem by taking 2 dollars off the cost of fuel.
But sadly things are neverly this simple because ultimately the defination of fuel is greed. Fuel price will never go down. Those big wig oil guys love the money too much. It doesn't matter who is sitting at the White House, Clinton, Obama, McCain, and it doesn't matter if the taxes are dropped. Actually those gurus probably are hoping for it, that just means a bigger chunk is going into thier pockets. It has nothing to do with population control. There's over 3 billion people in this world, and more coming, that means a bigger need for fuel, that exactly what oil companies want. United States is about freedom, but Americans are controlled by fuel. We hate it, but we can't live without it, and we will always give our money for it. And you thought crack was bad.
