Having
Your Say:
Jonathan Tauer on Cheap Gas or No Cheap Gas
July
25, 2001
Interesting
article. You pose the question of whether cheaper gas to
some Pioneer Valley residents who are members of these
huge stores would be a benefit to the community. The
real question is: Is cheap gas a good thing?
I
think it is not. We have artificially low oil prices
because we subsidize oil companies, who get rich off an
industry that is killing the earth and all that lives on
it. We pay in higher health costs, larger military
budgets, more environmental clean-up costs, not to
mention the looming specter of global climate change
which is largely due to transportation. I hope that gas
climbs to $4 a gallon, that communities vote down
further sprawl development and widening of roads. People
need to realize that no-one is going to drop down out of
the sky and save us, it is up to us to start realizing
what our personal decisions are doing to the quality of
life and to the environment. Our American lifestyle is
unsustainable and extremely wasteful and destructive.
I
am proud to be an American and to live in this country
but I am ashamed at the greed and apathy that I see all
around us. I hope to be able to show my grandchildren an
SUV in a museum some day next to the other wasteful
machinery as relics of our unfortunate past.
Jonathan
Tauer
Montague
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