Seeing gas prices lately has of course been frustrating for all of us.
We can all blame the government or whoever we want about the problems with gas prices right now but just complaining about them will do nothing. So all day I have been thinking about things I can do to at least start to bring a change.
http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbusiness/2008/04/26/americas-dirtly-little-oil-secret-plastic-bottles-and-bags/
That article gave me some good ideas. How necessary are plastic bags and bottled water anyway?
Other options to explore: Riding a bike, walking places, buying a canvas tote for light shopping, and choosing paper bags for larger shopping trips, carpooling.... Anyone have any ideas?
Thoughts?
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7 comments:
That article is questionable...
However, I think that anything short of a large scale boycott against a specific gas station they aren't going to go down from our activity.
Or if we force alternative fuel sources.
Recycling is always good.
It just looks as if we are going to have to sit tight as the gas prices start to hike up...
Read my blog, it kind of relates.
Also have to take into consideration that the price of oil goes up when the value of the dollar goes down:
$USD value over past 3 years
Yeah for inflation.
I'm not saying that drinking bottled water has created high gas prices at all. But, the plastic industry is responsible for at least as much oil usage as the article said it was and that's a fairly sizeable number.
I just do not personally think that countries (ours) can continue to consume luxury items as if they were necessities (water bottles,plastics bags, CARS) with China and India taking larger pieces of global oil stock.
Something's gotta give somewhere ya know?
If we all continue to take as much as we are, it's not going to turn out good.
But will a country really back down and let other countries take them all?
I'm just talking sheer supply and demand. If all of us (the world) stop using so much crap that we really don't need, we'll use less oil.
The oil refining process creates a number of different products like gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas, stuff used to make asphalt, lubricants of all sorts and the compounds used in plastics. Pretty much the entire barrel of crude gets used for a bunch of different things that our economy and the world rely on to function.
Supply and Demand.
And the fact that Americans are wasteful. Take for example water bottles and plastic bags. I rock the Nalgene bottle. I have way too many Target and WalMart bags sitting at home. Using things that are reusable are a good start. But what's more, we need to completely change the way we think, about virtually everything, and how we can be better stewards of what God has given us, Earth.
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