As many of us pull up to the gas pump at least once a week and we tend to wonder, why are we required to pay so much for this gas? As we pick our brains as well as our pockets, we try to figure out why this is, and why nothing is being done to help us out. We work hard to have things we want, and now they are just being taken away.
The average American is finding it harder to afford gas. Every month it seems like the prices are jumping up and up. Average Americans are finding other ways for transportation as well as cooking, heating, etc. Not only are American switching the way our average days progress, we now are finding ourselves substituting our funds for the price of gas to get to work and home, or travel, heating, and cooking. Many Americans don’t know why the gas prices are so high, and they hear stories about the war with Iraq, and that our soldiers are fighting for oil, but why are the prices still rising. And that if we stop buying the gas and switch resources, we would not be fighting the war that we are currently. An article in Fox news reported on April 25th 2008, that Oil came close to $120 a barrel Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf that may have been Iranian. The markets were also weighing the effects of a pipeline attack in Nigeria and a looming refinery strike in Scotland.
We don’t know when the prices will stop rising, because the price we pay for gas is determined by many things. As Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves. Many of us will continue to pay and feel the pain until someone can do something about it. Not only will fuel costs continue to go up, so will food costs. As our dollar drops in value, countries like India and China import more food from the United States. While the United States has no real control over the prices of gas, this means that...