Oil: Our addiction

    Most people in the world like big vehicles it pretty simple they are comfortable luxurious and just plain look good to most people, but this is a habit we need to kick. These big vehicles, while they look good, they aren't exactly fuel efficient and that is beginning to take a toll on our environment and our wallets. The more oil we use to make fuel the less there becomes, increasing the price of this seemingly indispensable commodity. There is a hard truth that we need to one day except oil will eventually run out it is just that simple. Once all of this oil runs out we will be simply out of luck; unless a conscience effort is made to become more fuel efficient or kick our addiction to oil once and for all.

    Our environment would also benefit from more fuel efficient hybrid or other alternative fuel cars. The burning of all this oil is causing great environmental changes to the world around us, weather patterns are changing, our air is becoming polluted with all these emissions from our gas guzzling vehicles. I am unsure how much stress our world can take until something eventually snaps under the burden of our own ill minded fancies of bigger is better when it comes to vehicles. Something MUST be done, you can not hide from the truth any longer it is time to step up to the plate and face this problem headlong or destroy the world around us.

With the overall average fuel economy at 20 mpg and the average person driving 13,476 in on year the average person burns 673.8 gallons. (13,476 miles / 20mpg = 673.8 gallons yearly) These are kind of scary statistics then you think when you think about them and that isn't including weather changes and other small things that effect your gas mileage. With the average price, as of yesterday, for a gallon of gas being $2.82, that's $1900.11 for the average person and I have to so most of us are probably not average. Even our small town Galatia with its population of 1,000 if everyone was average we would burn 673,800 gallons of fuel, that's startling to think of when you consider how many people there are in the United States.