Good & Expensive Gas

I am a student of economics. I believe that many of our issues in life can be attributed to economics. Obesity - cheap food. Pollution - unrecognized consequences (and thus no financial consequences). Waste - cheap whatever we are wasting. Lack of Education - cheap jobs. War - underpaid leadership. If things were to appropriately represent their cost and value then our habits would change as the cost of those things changed.

I know I may piss of people when I say this, but like mom or dad said, "You won't understand this until your older, but this is in your best interest." I am HAPPY to see the price of gas go up. We have gotten fat and lazy and because of this we are losing our edge. This "we" that I speak of is mostly aimed at the United States citizenry because that is where I see the consequences of cheap gas. Our electricity is cheap so we leave everything running all day long. Our gas is cheap so we drive down the street to the corner store and eat in our cars (with the AC on). So many things we do, just because we can.

Time.com wrote an article talking about 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas and the best part is that none of the things on the list even talk about the international politics or the development of technology.

Lets get on the ball people - accountability pays for itself in the long term - just like mom and dad said.