The cost of gas is starting to read like radio stations in this city ... 102.1 and 99.9. I have yet to pump gas at over $1/litre. The closest I've come in the past week is 98.6¢. I don't see this as just a phase or blip on the radar. Gas will continue to be very expensive and yet people still buy the gas guzzlers.
We should all buy Vespas and fill up twice a month. One way to hurt these guys is to not buy the product. The other way is to make and buy cars that run on something other than gas and oil. I'm sure they're out there but the big refineries have probably locked the inventors and the blueprints in a cage somewhere in Siberia. Why would Exxon or Texaco allow these cars to run amok in the general public when it would eat at their profits?
If the governments and car manufacturers cared about the environment, they would sell today's hybrid cars with a lower price tag than gas-run cars. I think more people would buy the hybrids and we wouldn't be prisoners of the pumps.
Once again it's all about the mighty dollar.
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Konnichiwa, its Evan ^_^;;
I agree that prices are just rediculous...there really is no excuse, except excuses that are lies ^_^;;
They still say its because of that stupid war, but really, even though the war ended, the prices still went on up, so really, I don't think it is the war ^_^;;
The government and the fossil fuel industry get along quite well...I may be wrong, but doesn't the government get a share of the profits? (Taxes)...they really would stand to lose billions if hybrid cars (or other alternatives) became the primary means of personal transportation -_-
Another issue...People, some of them anyway, associate 'alternatives' as 'diet' versions of the regular thing...they still think hybrid cars are crap, electric cars as well...Hybrid cars are actually pretty good from what I've seen...I saw a feature on 'Daily Planet' that showed that a hybrid car can go pretty fast ^_^ I dunno about the 'bells and whistles', but at least hybrids arn't slow neh?
Well, thats about all for my post, sayonara doods ^_^
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