by Bambi Shrum

Created on: May 09, 2008

The cost of fuel in our economy effects everything we ever purchase. The wholesaler sells to the retailer, who must have his goods transported, thereby affecting the cost of every single purchase made for the American household. The rising cost of Diesel, now at $4.20 a gallon average, has the trucking industry almost at a stand still in some areas. Truckers would rather avoid some states all together to avoid the price gouging some gas stations have taken as common practice. In Colorado, the truckers would rather go around the state than pay the outrageous prices.

Now lets say we were to concentrate only on the food crisis, to obtain affordable food, how are we going to get that food to where it needs to be when there is no affordable fuel to move trucks across this country. Put it on a train you still need to fuel that train. put it on a plane, you still need to fuel that plane. Even the US postal service depends on our fuel supply, without it our world as we know it will not function. Importing and exporting would stop, the ships need to be fueled. Without fuel of some sort, since there is supposedly an oil shortage, how would any one get the things they are buying and selling to the destination it needs to go. Food that is affordable would follow in step behind fixing the rising cost and shortage of fuel. And an alternative fuel source is obviously the only way to beat the oil shortage.

Go to any auto parts store and pick up two different bottles of oil, one real oil, one synthetic. The price difference is astounding. Synthetic oil is twice as expensive. Leads me to believe they need to work on a cheaper alternative to oil, which makes fuel, and then the food prices will reflect the change, as well as all other merchandise which is shipped across our country. Until that problem is solved, the price of food and everything else will continue to rise right along with the fuel prices.

The most important reason i can see to need an alternative fuel is so the rich politicians with their hands in the oil industries pocket book will no longer be able to line their pockets at the expense of the citizens. They wonder why the average citizen can not afford to live a quality lifestyle, they are the biggest part of the reason, their bank account gets below a couple hundred thousand, and the American public is the one going to pay for it. More taxes, higher fuel cost, which in turn affects electricity cost, and every other cost along with it. An alternative fuel would at least limit the ability to tell the public there is a shortage of a very needed resource. However, I personally do not believe there is a shortage at all. Drive through Texas and Oklahoma a person will still see the oil wells pumping. Not just a few here and there, but lots of them all through out both states. I have not recently been to many other states, but I am sure in whatever area you are in, you will still see active oil wells being pumped if you looking for them you will see them.

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