Jack Cafferty of CNN asked viewers what cheaper gas will mean to them. It’s been going down, and as much I personally appreciate a lower price of the pump, I don’t think it helps us as a whole. My response:
Gas could go down to $0.99/gallon, and it would thrill the drivers of the gas-guzzlers, but we’d still be poisoning our environment, causing global warming, and helping to prop up totalitarian regimes in the Middle East. Decades of cheap gas have made Americans spoiled children, and the result of our addiction to oil and refusal to find cleaner energy sources will leave numerous messes for our children and theirs to clean up. $3/gallon finally got Americans to think about these things. Cheaper gas will just return us to our previous states of entitlement, indifference, and ignorance.
