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April 16, 2006
The heck is wrong with gas prices?
So I went to go fill my up my 4 wheel drive vehicle again and was sad to see that gas has now gone up past 3 dollars a gallon for me. Does this mean gas will hit at least 3.50 this summer? then mebbe 4 next summer? or does it mean that in 3 years i should be expecting to pay at least 6?
Wheres the news media? Are they going to talk about it again this year or are they going to give ita bye because we just talked about this a few months ago?
According to the DOE, the average price of gas used to be around a buck fifty back in 2003. How much longer are we going to put up with this?
I don't get why there hasn't been more of an outrage over this. Essentially it has gotten twice as expensive to drive to work, drive to a vacation for workers.
If you drove 15,000 miles and averaged around 17.8 miles per gallon, 3 years ago this would cost you 1264.04 in gas. At 3 dollars a gallon that now costs you 2528.09 in gas. When gas hits 4 dollars a gallon it will cost you 3370.79.
I had been pretty indiffernt about ANWR before, but now i'm starting to think we should drill the heck out of it. Sure it's only a short term solution, but at least it will make energy costs a little more reasonable until the technology is developed for us to drive eco-friendly cars.
The other thing about eco-friendly cars that I noticed today. Hybrid cars are allowed to go in the HOV lanes. So all the traiditional cars get the stop and go traffic, while the hybrids get to enjoy the highway speeds. However, Hybrid cars really get their benefit in stop and go traffic. The prius gets 60 miles per gallon city and 51 miles per gallon highway. A Corolla will get 26 miles per gallon city and 34 miles per gallon highway. with the current setup, the prius get 51 and the corolla get 26 for a combined 77mpg. If you swapped them, the Corolla would get 45 and the prius would get 60 for a combined of 106 mpg.
The system should be, for every hybrid, they should let another regular gas guzzler go in the HOV. After all, the people driving the hybrids are driving them to benefit the earth right?
Posted by Bryant at April 16, 2006 02:03 AM
Comments
One slight problem with ANWR. The oil that comes out of it is heavy/dirty oil, which doesn't make for good gas. Also the price of gas has risen disproportinately with the price of oil.
Posted by: MisterStinky at April 17, 2006 09:48 AM
If lower gas prices are what you want, mefore looking to drill elsewhere, maybe the US government should investigate the record high profits posted by oil companies in the year of the record high gas prices?
Posted by: Chris at April 17, 2006 02:00 PM