Love your $5.00/gallon gas?

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

As you pump 13 gallons into your Honda CR-V -- American's best-selling SUV with 28 mpg on the highway and 21 in town -- it's nearly impossible to view the $50 you're spending with a positive attitude.




With the national average for regular at $3.81, it's easy to label oil executives as pond scum, but try to remain open-minded. Think of the big picture: Though that promised road trip to Disney World has gone up in carbon monoxide, high gas prices may actually have an upside. Not for you and your family personally, maybe, but perhaps for the United States as a whole.




What if gas hit $5 a gallon? Here are some benefits (and we're serious about most of them):



money.msn.com/how-to-budget/article.aspx?post=e04807fc-e307-45c7-a3b0-9fdabfac3518>1=33029

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

From the article ...

End of wars. According to National Defense Magazine, the cost of "in theater" gasoline to our troops in Afghanistan can range from $100 to $600. The Army estimated fuel can cost up to $400 a gallon if the only way to ship it is via helicopters. (Black Hawk helicopters get 0.74 mpg, while F15-E strike fighters get 0.41 mpg.) And that was last year's prices. Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya might get too expensive for America's taste.

::: rolls eyes :::

Hmm.... I'm not thinking that $5/gallon gasoline will end the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq ~ and if the author does, I seriously question his/her wisdom.

Gas prices aside and looking just at the human toll (deaths, injuries, deployments) I'm hoping that these wars get too expensive for America's taste.... but that's the topic for another thread.

[marshabar1]

JOHN HARWOOD: Could the high prices help us?


OBAMA: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that, ehh, this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. Uh, but if we take some steps right now to, uh, help people make the adjustment -- first of all by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly US automakers.

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Here's an article that I ran across about the cost of gas in Europe. (They have "free" health care & a big chunk of that free is paid with taxes on gas.

www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1809900,00.html

Those labor protests reflect the hit millions of Europeans are taking at the gas pump. As American drivers groan over prices nearing $4 a gallon, the French are paying $8.67 for a gallon of super, compared to $7.10 in January, 2007. A gallon of diesel in French gas stations averages $8.54, up from $5.35 just a year ago. And in the U.K. diesel costs $11.50 per gallon, compared to around $3.90 in the U.S. Across the European Union, the average cost of a gallon of gas runs to about $8.70 — more than twice what Americans are shelling out to fill up. And Europe's dizzying fuel costs would be even worse if it weren't for the considerable appreciation of the euro and the British pound against the dollar over the past year, which has partially offset the price escalation in dollar-traded oil.