the bright side of 5 bucks a gallon gas…..
You are probably looking at that title and thinking “did Steve lose his mind?”….no actually I think there might be a bright side to 5 dollar a gallon gas. For one, I have noticed fewer cars on the road. I think that means people are drivng less or using other forms of transportation or carpooling…..isn’t that what the environmentalists want?
Now it’s nice because when I communting to work the traffic isn’t as bad…I have also noticed that my local grocery stores always seem to have lots of stock. Most likely because people are buying less food because they have to spend an extra 50-100 dollars a week driving to work, picking up the kids, taking Grandma to the doctor…..you those un-necessary trips. Of course rich people don’t care because they are well…rich.
All joking aside……
Those that are struggling with making ends meet are only going to find it harder in the months to come. Our politicians are clueless with no relief in sight based on the 3 stooges we have running for president. We have no energy policy, no plan, no answers.
So what will we do….we will all just pay the 5 or 6 or 7 bucks a gallon and just struggle on. There are two reasons we will do this……One is because we love or cars, trucks and motorcycles. I know I’m guilty I love our
hot rod we drive on cruise nights. The number two reason is because we are Americans.
As Americans we generally do not look to the world for help. We pick ourselves up, brush off the dirt and move on. We take the crap other countries give us because we know who we are. And even if our politicians screw up the whole country and economy we will tough it out until it gets better.
So we could move to Europe where gas is about 6 bucks a gallon now. We could go to Venezuela where it is about 15 cents a gallon. I choose to stay here…..
So what do we do folks…….we “man up” and get use to it. Because it isn’t going to get any better anytime soon.