Can anyone say ridiculous?
These gas prices are out of control. I left for work in the morning and it was at $3.89 and I got home that same night and it was $3.99. What?!?! Do you remember when gas was less than a buck? I miss those days. I miss filling up my tank for under $20 bucks and now I barely get 1/2 a tank for $26! I'm going to have to start walking to work...
I went onto the transportation site to see how long it would take us to get to work if we took the CAT bus. Let's just say we'd have to leave the house at 3am to get to work on time at 8am. And that is for a 12 mile commute! Yeah I had a good laugh at that one. Vegas public transportation bites. We'll leave it at that.
It's even starting to hit at the grocery store. Dryers ice cream used to cost around $3.50 for 1/2 gallon. Now they have made it 1.5 quarts and charging the same amount. Instead of raising prices they are making the packaging smaller. I get it. They don't want consumers to freak out about cost increase. I didn't even notice the smaller size until someone talked about it on the morning show I listen to. I did notice that the labeling was new...sneaky bastards LOL.
I looked at other options. How much would I save if I bought a Hybrid? The cheapest I could find was $23K for a Toyota Prius. And the savings on gas mileage compared to my RAV4 isn't significant. If I had the money, I would do it purely for environmental reasons. But savings on gas? Not that huge.
The oil companies made RECORD profits in the history of the United States. In HISTORY. Then when called on it, they claim it wasn't that much. WHAT EVER! It's all a bunch of crap. If they claim record profits while people are scrambling to figure out how to put gas in their car, something is definitely not right.
While I agree that we need to be way less dependent on oil, we still need to use it until the geniuses come up with other options. There is good and bad in every option, it's a matter of finding one that is best for the environment and best for consumers. Until then, someone needs to do something about it. At the rate we're going, I predict the already bad economy to get that much worse before it gets better.
Ok I'm off my soap box...for now! LOL. Tune in next week when I rant about the cost of healthy eating! :-)
