{"id":652,"date":"2008-07-21T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-07-21T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:39:43","slug":"gasoline-is-an-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/gasoline-is-an-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline is an addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first gas crisis happened before I was born but cars today are less fuel efficient than they were in the 70’s. I usually try not to curse on my blog but seriously what the fuck?! We as a nation have done a lot of amazing things: put a man on the moon with less computer memory (64k) than is in your current mobile phone, invented the Internet, sequenced the human genome – I can go on and on – but some how a fuel efficient car escapes us. Seriously?
\nTen years ago in 1998, I lived in England and gas was the equivalent of $8 a gallon. Some of my classmates had cars and their response wasn’t a huge public outcry. They simply made sure that they bought smaller, more fuel efficient cars! Whoa. A mind shattering idea, right? Since i got back, I have been in the minority in believing that gas should cost more<\/em> that it does now. I had a car from 1999 – 2000 and felt that way when I was paying $1.20 a gallon even though I was a poor college student. I am not Casandra but the handwriting on this wall was pretty clear to me then and it still is now: the problem we have isn’t with the price of gas. The problem is gas, period.
\nAs Thomas Friedman puts it in his recent op-ed piece, “When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up.His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body.<\/a> The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.
\nTo that I say “Amen!” I wrote about this topic in 2005<\/a> and so did Mr. Friedman but 3 years later we are still in the same stupid place: buying oil from dictators and\/or Russia with no better plan in place. What a lovely situation to be in.
\nSure, you may say that as a walker, subway and train rider and cab passenger living in Manhattan I never have known what it was like to own and operate a car. Well, I just joined the car class – I have an 09 Matrix that gets 21 city and 29 highway which still isn’t good enough for me but unfortunately, a hybrid is super expensive and leasing one really isn’t an option.
\nTo be honest, I wish I was paying $6 – $8 a gallon for gas as it would be better for the planet that my daughter is inheriting from me one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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