Gas Prices
The non-stop gas price hike may have brought not so many good effects as what they report in the news. I could not imagine that this same predicament is what America is going through just now, as this has been in Manila for years just before and after the Erap administration. Statistically, America has one of the lowest gas prices in the world for years despite it is one of the highest oil consumer. And just now it is catching up with the third world in terms of burdening the fuel cost.
I am not going to analyze the economics of this. I merely want to state a simple realization. I believe that it has more good than bad effects to many people only if they look at it in good sense. There is a balancing effect that this situation is going to bring out. A big change that is long over due. For a simple life like ours, it is rather a sweet change to simplify an already simple lifestyle we have chosen.
It is not at all tightening the budget since I still get my once a week Starbucks mocha frappuccino. Maybe it is more of changing what is obsolete in this day and age. What does not work anymore gets to be tossed out of the mainstream. Like what for me though? Oh well, I’m sure I would know as the day goes by if I don’t need it anymore. As for now, I have lots of clutter to go through and garbage to throw away. I will have start inside my car to save that 15% in my fuel consumption.
