Gas prices....let 'em go up

Gas prices are a joke.

I remember when it ran over $2.00 then to $2.50 and everybody (including me) were all b!tchin'...I told my friend that I bet it would get up to $3.50 or $4.00 before anybody that could....would do anything about it.

Then somehow it will probably fall back down to $2.50 again and everybody will think it's the best thing since thong bikinis and wonder "WOW...look how cheap gas is now!!".

And in reality it still will be too freakin' high...it's just perception and the gas companies are playin' us.

gas prices are crazy

i just paid 3.59 here in cincy today

now i wont say how much i make but its not that much. if this keeps going,i might have to cut back on food and other things.

i drive about 45 to 50 miles aday. its just geeting out of control

I know I will probably piss some people off with this, but here goes. Does it seem to anyone that auto racing is kinda like thumbing our collective noses at fuel costs, and petroleum's eventual scarcity? It seems similar to having a chugging contest with your canteens on a 5 day desert hike, but thats just me. There are other wastes, plenty of others, but that one just struck me the other day as being pretty high profile.

On the cool side of things, my son has to do what is called a Senior Mastery Project over the summer and next year as a graduation requirement at his High School, a sort of Master's Thesis, if you will. ( I may have posted this before, but anyway) He has chosen to convert an early 80s Mercedes Diesel to Run Vegetable Oil. We are chipping in for the car with part of our tax refund, and "economic stimulus package", A California Based Company is donating the veggie oil conversion kit, and telephone and email support, and he has secured 5 local restaurants to obtain waste oil from. Its a large project, and I am proud of his initiative. It wont hurt his college resume' a bit either. I think it proves that people can get intelligent things done faster than corporations or government.

I assume/hope that you people aren't serious about your suggestions to halt NASCAR because it's waisting gasoline.  Since the U.S. uses somewhere between 125-150 BILLION gallons (depending on which estimate you go by) of gasoline every year, stopping all NASCAR races wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Things that would make a difference - more fuel efficient vehicles, improved public transportation, carpooling, increased telecommuting, etc.

I think it's funny to hear people complain so much about the price of gas, while at the same time refusing to change their habits to reduce their use.