Comment 40364

By d.knox (registered) | Posted May 04, 2010 at 21:32:29

I'm one of the dreadful people hoping that gas prices keep going up. I don't like our lifestyle, and I see that the easiest way to change it is for the price of oil to go through the roof.

I know we would adjust, but many of the dreadful things in our lives would price themselves out of reach - the expensive airfare for hideous, cheap holidays to "exotic" islands full of our neighbours would eliminate all-inclusive Carribean slumfests; expensive oil would eliminate the hoards of zombies congregating around far flung suburban malls; it would no longer be reasonable to visit relatives who live on another continent once a year. At least this could happen in the short-term.

Yes, things would become more expensive, but I think many of us could afford to cut back a little. Perhaps our lifestyles would start to change.

Sadly, or perhaps happily, humans are very adaptable. When we started running out of trees, we burned coal. When we depleted coal, we turned to oil. We'll find something else, the world will change around us again, and in some not distant future, people will listen to stories of the crazy past when we actually put oil! into our cars. That's just how things go.

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