At first glance one sees gas prices in the range of $4 per gallon across the country and just winces and tries to think of happier things but the impact upon lives of the people affected has widespread ramifications that go beyond the obvious.
Start by thinking of how many traffic jams are being caused across the nation because some poor fellow couldn’t afford gas and hoped there was enough in their engine to get them home while the gauge showed empty
How many additional cars will be left stranded by the roadside, burnt out and gutted because the driver could not keep up with the price of insurance and gasoline?
What is the cost in terms of ruined days and happiness turned to desparation because of financial turmoil contributed to and abetted by rapidly climbing gas prices?
Once an honest individual starts having an effect on beyond of their immediate sphere they soon recognize that their actions have unforeseen consequences.
I was selling an ebook online which shared secret shortcuts to avoiding the legendary traffic in Los Angeles. It sold a few copies. Too few! lol
I would occasionally wonder whimsically if I had sent anyone off their usual path to some serendipitous circumstance, good or bad.
So extrapolate that into the society at large being affected by something as widespread and dark as the price of gasoline skyrocketing across the nation
Life is a series of causes affecting other causes in a domino fashion while each piece has an option to fall, not fall, where to fall, in other words each piece in the dominoes game of life has self determinism but there is still this causes affecting causes factor which can take us down roads that hold surprises. That is the plus and the minus.
So, again, what really is the price to society of the rapidly rising gas prices?
And how do we, as individuals, as pieces in the dominoes game of life that still manage to have self determinism take the right actions so as to cease being robbed by large corporations and their greedy operations?
Some may say that there is nothing that we can do.
But such people might as well be dead and they are just waiting for someone to come along with a shovel.
In today's world there are cures for cancer to be found if one does some research, just as there solutions to global warming, the environmental waste of New Orleans and the health problems of the 911 first responders if one doesn't take no for an answer and the solutions applied, there is a solution on an individual level to emancipate us from slavery to the gas pump.
Did you know you can lower the gas consumption of a gas guzzler with water? A hybrid engine using both gas and water can be installed quite easily. A fully hydrogen based system can be implemented with just a bit more know how, resourcefulness and effort.
It is worth it in terms of a higher balance in your bank account, a cleaner environment, a better running automoblie and in so many unforeseen ways that could have positive ramifications that it really is wise to make the small investment of time and caring to get your automoblie modified to a hydrogen system.