A Lesson in Gas Prices and Economics
Today, I was getting some change out to pay for some things at school, since the DMV drained all my cash ($24.00 for a driver’s license renewal!! It was $11.00 three years ago…why are we electing Republicans if they are going to raise taxes and fees???). At any rate, as I was getting out change I remembered back in 1998 when I was in college, and my dad would give Jonathan and I gas money every so often, and would say “keep the change to eat out on.” We would actually have money left over to spend at local restaurants. That was when gas was 99 cents/gallon. Now, at $3.19, we have no money left over, and that extra $32.85 (2.19 x 15 gallons) per fill up is going to pay super-rich oil execs, oppressive communist leaders, terrorists, and so forth, and NOT our local American business owners. Now if it is costing me 32.85 more per fill up than in 1998, multiply that number times the number of people in the U.S. and you can see how little money is going into the local economy and how much is going into the pockets of a few. Oh…and I am still waiting for the Democrats to do something about high gas prices. Could it be that even the Democrats and celebrities harping about energy issues are themselves unwilling to change their lifestyles significantly, and cannot even fathom life without their private jets or mansions with exorbitant electric bills (think Al Gore). Well at least they are harping I guess, since you can’t seem to convince most Americans that funding the governments of Iran and Venezuela with our oil addiction is a problem.
