Friday, July 11, 2008

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas

Time magazine says something positive about expensive gas. See here for the article.

The list includes:

  • Globalized Jobs Return Home
  • Four Day Work Week
  • Less Pollution
  • Fewer Traffic Accidents
  • Less Traffic
  • Less Obesity
  • ..

These are all good! That is the optimists view. But, gas price IS driving everything up, big time, including vital items such as food.

I have one complain though, when we watch reports from news and magazines, it says "Oil at $4 a gallon" when we in Chicago are already paying more than $4.5! They say oil at $3 when we were paying $3.5. Why are the media so late? Or, why is Chicago more expensive than the average?

The Iran missiles don't help.

We also have outrageous 10%+ sales tax.

Folks we must adapt: drive less fuel hungry cars or drive less. But I don't know what to do about high sales tax.

2 comments:

Forced-to-be Montessori Dad said...

Buy less; buy things online and have it delivered to your place (no sales tax). I haven't tried groceries online though.

bmalec said...

Concerning what you can do about the high sales tax--next election I'm voting against everyone who supported the tax increase.

Not sure what else we can do...