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As we wade through one of the messiest global financial disasters, many people are looking to cut costs. And of course one of the highest costs for us 9-5 workers is our gas budget.

But this may change in the future. Imagine a vehicle that does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, costs pennies per kilometer, has a 14,000 rpm redline, and is 100% electric.

What’s that you say? Electric?

Absolutely. As. in. no. gas. needed.

 

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Our hats off to Tesla for fighting the good fight against the high cost of fuel, after all, someone has to!

So the price for a barrel of oil is now down to $68. When it was $147, the prices of fuel doubled over the course a several months.

It was amazing to watch how quickly the numbers at the gas stations changed, sometimes just based on rumor. Many of our neighbors asked when the price was going to stop climbing. Many cancelled a summer vacation they were planning. Some stopped a number of non-essential subscriptions. Pretty much everyone looked for ways to lower their day to day costs. Driving less really wasn’t an option, and certaining wasn’t one that was chosen.

Our country is really based upon the idea of personal transportation. We have trains, planes, and buses, but the vast majority of the people drive everywhere – work, shopping, leisure activites. So when the price of gas went up, we cut down on other activities.

And it hurt.

Now, there is a financial situation occuring that is causing the price of oil to plummet. The price is down to the good old days.

Why has the price of fuel only dropped 15% when the cost of oil is HALVE!?!

Imagine how people are going to react when the price of oil starts going back up again…and the price of fuel rises at the same time. Really, you think the gas companies won’t use the rising price of petroleum to gouge us all again?

Time for us to demand electric cars. Not hybrids, electric. Screw the oil companies. For years they have been bleeding us dry. No pity for them.

Now to find a car company that’s not in bed with them.

Any ideas?

I know some people say that it takes times for oil prices to work their way through the market before gas prices at the pump adjusts. I want them to consider this: If there is an earthquake, a chance of increased hostility overseas, a penguin sneezes somewhere cold, and we see instant increases in the price we pay for our fuel. This is due to “speculation” or “market forces” or some other culprit. The point is should oil prices increase our costs increase almost immediately.

However, it appears the reverse is not true. Due to some decent production levels, and new regulations put into place to reduce the power speculators have to drive up the price of crude oil, we have seen some impressive drops in the price of a barrel of oil recently.

One might think that with such a break, the price of gas would do a corresponding drop as well….but no. It IS true that prices have dropped…a few cents. A tiny token, designed to appease the masses, but a token that tells us shortly the price we pay will be skyrocketing once again.

I suppose we should be grateful for even this short delay in yet another price increase, but for me, I fear what happens when the greed of the corporations demand we pay a cost for our fuel we simply cannot pay.

And that day is rapidly approaching.

Perhaps it is time to embrace a new form of transport, whether an electric vehicle, or if it becomes successful, a hydrogen fuel cell car. Some form of change is in our near future, the only question that remains is what can we do to weather the transition?

A good thought to consider for a monday morning