Why are we accepting these soaring fuel prices?

Answer 1

because we don't really have a choice but to accept it.

Answer 2

Reasons why...

1 Those with money do not care...or can afford to drive gas guzzlers.

2 People do not want to take public transportation, or in some areas public transposrt is severly lacking.

3 We as a people have not decided that it is worth the fight or that we can not do anything.

4 Despite the new oil process in Alaska and Canada that could easily help lower fuel prices, the industry is making way too much profits.. I heard like $10,000 every mintute in actual profits

5 CEO's are too greedy. If all the Ceo's in america took a pay cut the leftovers could cure all the homeless and starvation problems in our country

Personally, I think there should be a few days that we all carpool, use public transposrt, walk, bike, ride scooters whatever uses the least amount of gas possible to make our statement....but then again compared to the rest of the world we have it cheap. Britian I think pays about the same if not more for a liter, which is less than a gallon!

Answer 3

With all the means of communication we have, we just can't communicate. I have been trying to get the word out, that we just need to slow down to 55 or 20% and we can save 15.6% of fuel on land, sea,and air. We have vehicles that could use water as a fuel, but the oil and political people won't let them out because they would lose money. If we just had mandatory neighborhood watches, the terrorist would have no place to hide. We accept the soaring fuel prices because we are slaves where both in a family must have one or more jobs each, just to get by. The answer is to vote in a benevolent dictator who really cares about the people and doesn't just want to line his pockets and make speeches with a smirk on his face. Thanks for the question ... hope you can get a really good answer. See Fox news clips in source for water as fuel.

Answer 4

Because, sadly, most people are far too stubborn to make any changes in their lifestyle. I always hear people saying things like, "Once it hits over $5, I quit!" and I simply scoff to myself. For starters, why in the heck would you pay those high prices in between here and $5?? And it goes to show that even if it DID get that high, 90% of them still wouldn't change their habits. They'd rather continue driving their gas-guzzling SUVs, and god forbid anyone did something as healthy as walk or bike, or use public transportation.

As for someone's point that a one-day gas boycott would work, it simply isn't true. People would merely fill up in the days preceding or following, and not cause any overall difference. For anything to make such a huge money machine truly fail, it would need a CONTINUOUS cutoff of their revenue- and NO one is willing to do that.

Answer 5

I'm doing everything I can to curb my fuel use. I keep both my and my wife's vehicles tuned, and performing at as close to peak capacity as possible.

I don't idle through drive thru's. I shut it off and go in.

I don't rocket up from dead stops, and pretty much observe posted speed limits.

The tires are properly inflated and the filters are clean.

I also have foregone several road trips that I've taken in the past. My wife's vehicle doesn't even get cranked unless she's got three places to go.

What pisses me off is the people that the reporters always interview who say stupid things like, "Yeah, I hate the price of gas, but I'm not going to alter my habits any."

Then how the hell do they expect the price of gas to ever go down?

Supply and demand. Economics 101.

Answer 6

We need gas to get around.

I hardly drive anywhere anymore because of it.

There is no public transportation system in my county--they discontinued it 10 years ago. I'd walk, but I have a bad ankle and I can't walk all the time. I do try sometimes.

I do try not to drive a lot. I have a 1997 Grand Caravan that gets 13-21 mpg, not exactly a gas guzzler. My husband has a Chrysler Sebring...if we go anywhere together we take his car, better gas mileage.

Answer 7

We are accepting these prices on fuel becuase we really don't have a choice if we need to use are vehicle to get to work, or we need to pay more for our groceries because it costs more to run the trucks to deliver the groceries. We will pay these terrible prices even if they go up to $10 a gallon. What else are we going to do stop life......

Answer 8

It is easier to complain and drive than conserve and walk. Too many politicians have filled their pockets by holding back progress in alternative fueled vehicles and more efficient ones. One of these days the people will have to give up a little more than money to get control of things.

Answer 9

Oil is a finite resource. It is running out. That's not liberal hippie tree hugger theory; it's what the oil companies themselves say. Exxon Mobil predict Peak Oil within 5 years (see link below).

Peak Oil is the moment at which our power to find new ways to extract oil no longer makes up for oil becoming more scarce as we use it. It's the point at which ever increasing oil prices become inevitable, as the supply of oil runs out.

Fuel prices will continue to go up. Learn to deal.

Answer 10

Because we don't have any real choice in the matter, most of us can't simply park our vehicles and bike or walk.... That said I am using my bicycle to make short errands, never used to do that in the past. I drive a 2001 Chevy 1500 pickup, 14 mpg, my wife drives a 2001 Toyota Camry, 24 mpg, the pickup isn't getting driven much...

Answer 11

We have plenty of other options: car pooling, public transportation, lobbying for more publica transportation, buying hybrids, using ethanol blends, or buying cars that run on 85 percent ethanol. Or stop buying gas guzzling SUV's if we don't need them. Maybe someday prices will rise to the point where people will make up. But the fact is, people like their gas guzzlers, and they like complaining about gas prices. They don't like sacrificing the two and trying to really change things.