Cruising is No Longer a Cheap Thing to Do

With oil over $50 dollars a barrel, and gas prices this past weekend reaching to $2.19 a gallon, it is getting expensive to drive our cars anywhere. I want to say I will not pay $2.19 for gas, but I find myself filling up so I can come to class. We are dependent on our cars. My fiancé’s mother said she remembered when it went over a $1 a gallon and every one said they would quit driving. Should we now just except it is going to stay over $2.00 a gallon for hear on out, or is there another alternate out there. Most everyone has heard of the hybrid cars. They get up to 55 mpg. Some of us have driven around and seen houses with solar panels on their roves for power. There is also wind and hydroelectric power. There are a great number of alternative to oil, but we as a nation have chosen to stay way from them. We have become so comfortable with our oil and gas that we say everything else does not work as well. Are we right to other forms of power not work as well or are we just too stubborn to try something new. How high will the price of oil have to rise before we as a nation serious look at other forms of energy?
Marietta AM March 27, 2005 A7