Oil: We Need a Long Term Solution NOW
I was talking to one of my friends today about our job searches. We are both certified to teach and looking for positions. There is a hiring freeze in my county. She is one county north and although they have positions, they are filling them first with the teachers who have been displaced down here after the budget cuts.
We got to talking about how careful we have to be now when accepting a position that is not close to home. Gas prices are prohibitive and the estimates of what they might be in a year or so mean that working too far from home is counterproductive.
Her family goes up to South Carolina every summer where they know of some particularly reasonable Hilton Head rentals. This summer, though, they are spending her husband’s vacation time at home and just doing a couple of local fun things, like Busch Gardens and camping. She said that once they figure in the gas, the vacation is no longer as inexpensive as they are used to it being.
We just cannot do it. That is my message to our politicians. If we have to be dependant on foreign oil even one more year, backs will break here in the United States. Going to a 4-day work week or school week will be necessary. Transportation costs are out of control. Food costs are subsequently up, as are the prices on most consumer products. Our budgets just do not fit anymore.
Nancy Pelosi is an elitist fool. Opening up the reserves once is not going to solve the crisis. They do not want to drill, because oil prices will not be affected tomorrow? That’s not the point. We need a long-term solution.
Not even one more year. That is my prediction. We cannot do this even one more year without falling into mass depression.
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