Well, the cost for a barrel of oil hit record highs. What’s this going to mean for us motorists?You’ve probably already guessed. Prices for a gallon of gas are approaching or in some areas have surpassed the $3.00 a gallon mark. Some experts are predicting $4.00 a gallon by memorial day.
I know there are alternative fuels we could be using now. Some auto makers have built hybrid vehicles and there have been commercials on TV that advertise green & yellow fuels, fuels made from plants such as corn and sugar. So why haven’t these forms of fuels used more than they are now. Do gas prices need to go higher? Are there large corporations and political interests holding these alternatives back?
I wish I knew the answers.
The higher gasoline prices means voters will be less reluctant to add to their financial burdens by surrendering to the City of Mesa’s desire to add another tax lien to their property..
and by voting NO for the Property Tax.
It makes it tought for everyone. Rising prices in gas and real estate are things everyone must pay. Its tougher for people who live in Gilbert, Chandler, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and all those cities have higher sales taxes and property taxes to boot.
I have a very economical car, a 4 cylinder that gives me 32 miles per hour city driving. Normally to fill my tank, the max is 15 gallons, it cost me on an average, $25.00 for 340 miles.
Yesterday I had to get gas at the corner, economical, gas station. At $3.05 per gallon I purchased 13.75 gallons for $42.03.
The climbing prices and no intervention to stop the madness makes it difficult to pick and chose where one will travel today!
I think it’s manageable and there are powers that be that could help us. Where are they and why do we have to go through this? Last year it was the pipe line out of Tucson needing repair that drove up prices.
Everybody gets hurt when it comes to high gasoline prices. Business, public transportation including and especially hit hard are the airlines —their costs are high enough as it is!
After 9/11 the airlines began a downward trend. Some of those, like America West Airlines were helped and successful in their rebound. Why aren’t some of the others being helped as equally and generously?
Families, the employee, schools, retired on fixed income, commuters that have a distance to travel to get to the job, anywhere one might travel puts everyone in an economically disadvantaged place.
All levels of government seemed to be paralyzed on the topic. What is there to gain? I don’t know George W. Bush, but if you do, woud you ask him this question for me?
Mr. President, would you please help us? We are individually burdened with the outrageous cost of gasoline and given no answers as to why.
The consequences hit everybody in the pocket: jobs are at stake, families are at risk, budgets are stretched, there is so much more behind the scenes, just how badly these out-of-control gas prices will eventually hurt us may be more than perhaps anyone realizes.
It seems we’ve become complacent and don’t feel we have a chance to fight back—but we must. Accepting high gas prices as if we’re helpless is a mind set we must overcome, turn our thinking around, and ask the good questions to those that have the power to reverse this trend.
Last year, we hit record highs for a gallon of gas because the company operating the pipeline supplying gas FAILED to invest money in the maintenance of that pipeline.
Now, we’re paying higher prices because we consumers are reluctant to change and invest in other alternative fuels.
Voters of Mesa must realize that if we don’t do something now, it will just be more expensive later and some of our valued services may NEVER return.