Power to go

I think it would also help if people:

Walked
Rode bicycles
Rode in groups instead of 1 to an SUV

As to lower cost fuels, the biggies out there don't yet seem concerned with it all. More of a concern to me than just the price is the fact that we are depleting the entire supply of the product we are using now with our self-indulgent greed.

Going back to the questions of your poll, I think that there is a possibility that some Americans may still have a twinkle of pioneering spirit but it is being squashed even as we set here. Look around...cell phones, computers, television and zillions of gadgets and gizmos which make each person an entity unto themselves with no reason to interact...or give a darn...about anyone or anything else. The person who has the gas guzzler drives it and pays the gas costs as a way to say "look how wealthy I am" and they really don't do anything to stop the costs from moving upwards.

Re: Power to go


Is "price" all there is? A part of the reason prices are up on oil derived products is because "we the people" demanded that MTBE be removed form gasoline because it was poisoning ground water all over the country. The solution to the MTBE problem was one of those alternative, renewable fuels - ethanol.

The days of cheap fuel are done and gone. Get used to it. There is no current alternative that fills all the requirements of inexpensive and renwable without creating pollution problems.