Recent headlines posted about seem to have people oblivious to the simple facts. Gas is a good, a commodity and a product, it is not a necessity. While many people act as if gasoline and driving is a necessity very few of us actually need to at all, much less to the degree that we do. Cars are for the most part a luxury item, something to make our traveling easier.

Yet we as a nation sit back and wonder why are going up and we are outraged at the companies for making such high profits. The simple facts behind consist of a limited supply and an unlimited demand. Regardless of the we develop for getting to the oil, there will always be a finite supply of it, thus we will see a steady rise in cost, for the remainder of our use of it, until finally all is gone, or it becomes an obsolete form of fuel. Yes there are reserves in Alaska we can drill and places off our coasts to put well's, but in the long run this will merely put a Band-Aid on the wound, so long as we keep using oil, the price of it will rise, and if we keep using at our current rate then the price will continue to skyrocket every summer. We are now paying three times, and in some parts four times, what I paid 7 years ago when I first put in my mother's minivan.

The networking website face book, is littered with about and the of such. One of the most common is a boycott group where people decide that by not buying for one day, they will truly show the companies that the people are angry and are tired of buying expensive gas. Well it does not matter how angry we get, or how high they raise the prices, because unless we as a nation change our energy usage policies on a personal basis then we will only exceed our current demands and thus up the price even higher. Please do not join anymore boycott groups, you will only fill up your tank the day before or the day after the boycott, and you will only send the message that you are as dependent upon their as ever.