Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Crime will be on the increase...there will be more than just propane tanks being stolen. Gas will be syphoned from your cars when you're not looking, your homes will be broken into for things to be easily sold on the street to pay for higher power and gass bills. Instead of learning how to live using less gas and less power, those who can't afford it will learn how to steal/rob so that they can maintain their lifestyle and we'll end up paying for it.
The gas prices went up to $2.85, for the expensive car, to $3.00 a gallon. Do you see less cars on the road? At five o'clock, there'll be just as many cars lined up as there were when gas was sold at $2.27 a gallon. No one will think of car-pooling because that would save money and that's just not 'cool' in this community....and I'm sure as the sun will rise tomorrow that when Atkins Kroll and Nissan Motors and Tripple J Motors and the likes of them have a big sale on the gas guzzling SUVs that there'll be a throng of people lined up to buy the giants on wheels, never thinking that it'll cost almost $50 dollars to fill the thirsty gas tanks when they're empty.
Will we change our lifestyle as the prices at the gas pump and the bottom line on our power bills increase? We may not be able to walk to work but we can use fans instead of air conditioning and we can use air drying instead of dishwashers, line drying instead of dryers..surely we realize that the shipping lines will also have to pay for increased costs which they'll pass on to the consumer(us) which means everything we buy will be more expensive.
Truly, these are scary times but they're survivable if we're careful and take the time to think things through....the government has to be as thrifty as its citizens.