Usually gas prices go down in fall; however, this year they have not gone down. Gas is an essential to everyday life. Gas prices have also cause oil prices to go up, making it more expensive for people to get from place to place. This makes transportation harder for everyone. Oil and gas is important because we use it to transport ourselves from one place to another. For students that need to get from one place to another, it’s hard to get transportation with gas prices so high. I don't have a car yet, but i know that when I do get a car i will not like gas or oil prices so high. As students we need something affordable to move around. Everyone has things to do and we are all forced to get in a car and drive somewhere, yet with gas prices so high it's not easy to do so without money. When you think about it if you have a job and you are paying more for gas you are really getting paid less. Cars require gas and in order to get the gas you need money, and how else would we get it if not by working. I believe we need to find a solution for gas prices going so high. Also, with Christmas season around the corner we need to start saving money as well. Buying presents for the whole family this year will be harder than the previous ones. Children this year will be very disappointed seeing that Santa Clause didn't bring as many presents this year as he had the last. I guess we will all just have to cope to all the new changes that will be cause by the high prices of gas and oil.
Unseasonably Higher, Gas Prices Add to Strain On U.S. Consumers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/business/08gas.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
2 comments:
Dear Sarah,
I see that you posted this at around 8:30 just like me. Getting homework done is important.
About the oil prices. Good pointing out that oil prices usually go down during the fall. While I read that and pondered, I realized that may be because of a number of reasons. 1, there is less gas used because during the fall the air conditioner is turned off. Number 2, there is less gas being used on summer activities like mowing lawns with gas powered engines, or driving to a vacation spot. Thanks for making me think. As for the gas prices, you can thank the government. The oil companies and the government is basically the same thing. Oil companies are so powerful that we could be slaves... I mean we are slaves to the price of oil. If you go back 3o years to a 1970's science book you will see that there was already talk about global warming and solutions to cars using gasoline. Water powered cars were already available back then. The question comes up, "Why don’t we have water powered cars?" The answer lies in the oil companies and the government. If there were water powered cars, then there would be no need for oil or gasoline. So to solve this problem, the companies bought out this invention or idea and hid it from the public. See, we are just robots for the government, and the government is governed by oil.
I left you one heck of comment, I better get lots of big man points on my grade card.
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