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Originally Posted by Sly
I saw an article last week that said public transportation usein major cities is up like 7%. Which in itself is a good thing, but since it was never planned or budgeted for, is causing problems.
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That's what I'm getting at.. $5/gal gas is the only thing that is going to force this country into change. Americans in general have always been very wasteful and it's time we clean up our act.
Everyone wants to cry about Global Warming this or that but how many of them actually do anything to help stop it? $5/gal gas forces people to make change and it will be for the better in the long run.
With $5/gal gas it forces people to drive less and will force the auto makers to build more fuel efficient cars. Look at GM they just shut down 3 SUV plants this week. While it sucks for those out of a job it also is proof that the only thing that was going to make Americans buy fuel efficient cars was high gas prices.
Used to be every Tom, Dick and Hairy was driving a H2, Dodge Hemi or some other big ass truck or car that got shit mileage but looked cool. Did 90% of these people actually need anything like that? Of course not but they didn't care because gas was cheap.
How many H2's and Dodge Hemi's do you see driving around today?
If we still had $1.50 gas GM and the other American auto companies would be more than happy to continue to pump out 12mpg cars and trucks for the next 15 years. Now they are being forced to do what they should have already been doing.
People will also end up sharing rides more often or riding public transportation. Expensive fuel is the only thing that could have forced this change. We could have done it before but we didn't so now we have to.
People need to quit looking at the short term and think how this will help us in the long run. We are being forced off the tit of big oil. Yea it hurts at first but it's for the best long term.