Good Points! Re:That's a pretty narrow perspective (archive)

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Points well written!! I agree that we are too dependant on oil as country to be able to simply absorb the continual increases without having adverse effects on the rest of the economy. While JS rationals above are logically correct...until we discover new alternatives we need to continually fight prices increases on all levels.

I'd like to see these people who live in CA try paying the heating oil bill up there in the Northeast or NY & see if they still can afford to take out the SUV's or our beloved M Coupe as often.

I'm not saying we should stop driving all together. But we need to be vigilant in our fight of any inflation.
I can't continue to afford like others here to pay the sequential increases interminally forward.
I still enjoy driving my coupe but @ some point it will affect all of us in our professional & private well-being.

PLs respond w/ any intelligent dialogue (unlike the duffus above w/ ignorant in-bred mentality).

: Gas prices affect more than just those who own gas-suckers or those who can't afford to pay the few extra bucks per fillup. It likely affects you, too, as much as you "want" the prices to rise, which IMHO is a pretty ignorant statement.

: Higher priced gas == less people able to drive to work == less work == less productivity & work == less jobs == less corportate earnings == less to you. Albight, indirectly, either through your own workplace, the stockmarket, or rising prices in other categories. Perhaps the cost at the supermarket of all food items now will go up because the truckers go on strike and the 'supply' of the service of shipping is reduced? Demand will go up and the extra cost in that carton of milk or bag of chips will be passed on to you, as everything else that gets transported by something that uses gas.

: A major issue like this affects more than just the economic scale at hand, but the entire economy as a whole, and as a member in that system I'm sure you don't want it to negatively affect you.

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