Be Careful What You Wish For
On the drive home tonight, Mike reminded me that I had once gleefully wished for gas prices to rise to $4.00 a gallon to punish drivers of SUVs and other excessive, unnecessary, penis-extension, fashion accessory, keeping up with the Joneses automobiles.
Its no secret that I’ve HAAAAAAAAAATED SUVs since they first started coming out in the early 90’s. I have always preferred to buy smaller cars with good fuel economy. We don’t own a hybrid, and I wish we had bought one, but at the time it seemed out of our price range. I agonized for weeks when we wanted to buy a slightly larger vehicle to accomodate longer trips and more stuff that having a child requires. Yes, we have a Subaru Forester, which is technically an SUV, but we can pull out 30mpg on the interstate, almost never drive it to work, and use it on weekends for errands and shopping to keep our Civic available for our high-mileage daily commute.
Anyway, with regular unleaded gas at $2.97, I realize that I may get my wish. I just wish that I didn’t have so far to commute and have to pay so dearly for it too.
I’ve often thought gas prices should skyrocket. Sure we would take a hard fall, but in the long run I would hope we would do something smart about about our enegy needs and be better off.
Although doing something smart might be a lot to ask of the current administration.