If there’s one thing I’m sure of concerning the year 2008, it’s that those of us with cars will never forget how much we paid for every tank of gas that we put into our cars. With gas hitting a $4.11 average over the summer, it’s no wonder as to why automobile sales are down. But when words of the recession hit and banks began to fall one after another, so did the price of gas. Many of us felt gas would never go under three dollars again, and when gas hit $1.50 we couldn’t help but think that it would eventually go back to those incredibly high prices.
But here we are in February, and while the prices are comparatively higher than those of December, they are still significantly lower than those of 2008’s February, a sign we can hopefully find some assurance in. But there are those who still find it preferable to shun the way of the single person commute, being forced out of the practice by the previous year’s gas prices. Instead, they rely on public transportation or carpooling in order to get to their destination, a factor that both keeps down the price of gas and is somewhat responsible for the decline of the auto industry. The real question we face at this point is where our breaking point is. Let’s say that gas goes back up to roughly four dollars a gallon this summer. Will more of us attempt alternate forms of transportation? Or will it take gas to reach five or even six dollars a gallon? I personally hope that neither scenario is one we have to face, and that with the advent of alternative fuels, we can slowly begin to forget how much money we spent on oil.
3 comments:
I for one feel that by late summer of this year, $4 a gallon will seem cheap. 2009 is the breaking point; if we don't drastically alter the ways we create and use energy, gasoline will be a commodity reserved solely for the wealthiest.
I feel other forms of transportation like these electric cars, hybrids, etc. are too expensive, and some of them are not too friendly to the eye. I understand we are not suppose to be thinking about making a statement of style at a time like this, but we do have to be realistic. I hope gas does not go up as high as it did this summer ever again, but as we saw people have to have it and will comtinue to get it.
LETS GO Obama!
He's got this plan to get 1 million hybrid cars on the road by 2015!
I'm not too sure how this is going to go down but its on his agenda. It even has its own bulletin. (like a period but its bigger and floats in mid air). Anywho if gas goes up again i'm guessing we will go through the same cycle since cycles seem to be popular here on earth (nitrogen cycle,water cycle, and the bicycle) banks will shut down hummers will be seen with white towels hanging from the crome on the front window in a sign of defeat and small children will no longer play with toy cars but have little Treebeard figures from the lord of the rings.
Fantastic ;)
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