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Abstract:
Oil prices are reaching new heights, and local residents are outraged.
Michael Suerth, a 23-year-old truck driver from Charleston, is one of these residents, and he believes that the ones being hurt the most by the price surges are the ones in the trucking business....
Originally posted byScott C
It's not just the truck drivers who are getting their wallets drained by Big Oil. It is also the common consumers, the ones who have to traverse long distances to and from their places of employment, and one easy way to lower the demand on gas is to eliminate big gas guzzlers like the Hummer, and most big SUV's already on the market.
But the chances of that happening anytime soon is very unlikely, because we Americans like to be spoiled with our big monster trucks, we don't want to consider carpooling, as we are way too fiercely independent for it to have an effect, and the availability of a mass public transit system is not going to happen. In order to have a mass public transit system, you need to live in the big cities, and the little "hole-in-the-wall" cities like Charleston have no way of providing a mass public transit system.
We, as Americans, need to realize that we are the ones who are helping drive the prices of gas and oil to levels never seen before, and the only way we can fix that is if we actually become a self-sufficient country, able to take care of ourselves without heavily relying on foreign oil imports. I don't see that happening anytime soon, so every person has their own right to complain about the high gas prices, the high heating oil prices, and how it affects each and every one of us in one way or another.
But before you really start complaining about the ridiculous prices of gas here in the States over $3/gallon, try and find a good gas price overseas, or even in Canada. When I was in Zurich, Switzerland in 2003, when the gas prices in the States were around $1.79 a gallon, the local gas prices there were around $2/liter. If you try filling up a 14-gallon gas tank at $2/liter, you're talking about $106, because there are close to 53 liters in 14 gallons. I am sure if you look overseas, we have very little to complain about with our big gas guzzlers, because their gas prices are by the liter, while ours are by the gallon. Try filling up a Hummer over there, as often as you would here in the States, then try to complain about the Big Oil sharks.
Scott C
posted 3/30/08 @ 11:11 PM CST
But the chances of that happening anytime soon is very unlikely, because we Americans like to be spoiled with our big monster trucks, we don't want to consider carpooling, as we are way too fiercely independent for it to have an effect, and the availability of a mass public transit system is not going to happen. In order to have a mass public transit system, you need to live in the big cities, and the little "hole-in-the-wall" cities like Charleston have no way of providing a mass public transit system.
We, as Americans, need to realize that we are the ones who are helping drive the prices of gas and oil to levels never seen before, and the only way we can fix that is if we actually become a self-sufficient country, able to take care of ourselves without heavily relying on foreign oil imports. I don't see that happening anytime soon, so every person has their own right to complain about the high gas prices, the high heating oil prices, and how it affects each and every one of us in one way or another.
But before you really start complaining about the ridiculous prices of gas here in the States over $3/gallon, try and find a good gas price overseas, or even in Canada. When I was in Zurich, Switzerland in 2003, when the gas prices in the States were around $1.79 a gallon, the local gas prices there were around $2/liter. If you try filling up a 14-gallon gas tank at $2/liter, you're talking about $106, because there are close to 53 liters in 14 gallons. I am sure if you look overseas, we have very little to complain about with our big gas guzzlers, because their gas prices are by the liter, while ours are by the gallon. Try filling up a Hummer over there, as often as you would here in the States, then try to complain about the Big Oil sharks.