How will we live with the price of oil going up

My husband thinks that it will have to be really bad before that happens.

Part of the problem is that some of the alternatives are putting pressures on other things. For example, the price of corn is high now because of Ethanol and other alternative fuels. So, everyone wants to grow corn and less wheat making wheat more expensive. We need an alternative that doesn't affect other parts of the economy so much. And, ontop of everything, we need to be more fuel efficient in all things that use energy.

Suspenseful, I hope not, I hope that the government realizes we need to be out from under the oil tycoons that are ripping us off..

Yes, desertdarlene, that would be a problem which is why another alternative needs to be allowed..I don't know if the government is holding back or maybe they haven't quite got it ready, but there is an alternative that I believe to be safe and not harmful to the environment..

Wheat has gone up here too. I cannot eat too much wheat, (oh am I going to suffer, we had crepes for lunch!) but I do love multi-grain and rye crackers. I would hate that they go up in price. Do you know that now multi-grain bread now costs almost $4.00 a loaf up here? And I do not mean the large loaf. I mean the regular sized loaf. I do not know who to write to and complain about this and I hope that the Americans write to their congressmen.
Oh decent not hurt and cause people to starve alternative energies: Windpower and Geothermo Energy.l

We have had high gas price here for some time (mainly the taxes on it,) but now we see it at $1.38 a liter. We are a little less than a mile away from the shopping center and we live in the city. There is another place that is also less than one mile away, so we are stuck in the middle. We do our grocery shopping once a week, but we cannot do the other stuff in one day and we like to have coffee twice a week, plus there are other things. My husband had a stroke so he cannot go for long walks so we have to drive most everywhere.

When we were driving through Ohio and Omaha, we saw all those signs praising ethanol, and that they did not have to depend on American oil. I told my husband that the corn was being used for fuel, but not for food. It did not sink in. Now when we go to Superstore and see the price of bread going up, even the cheap loaves we buy, it is sinking in. I would suggest wind power and here in Manitoba we can use geothermal energy. We have a couple of new housing divisions. Bot for cars, there is only hybrids and hydro and electric. (anyone need a long cord for the car?)

As leader of a political party, it's incumbant upon me to find solutions to what we are doing right now.

But it's also important for me to find realistic ones.

With BC Premier Gordon Campbell about to afflict us with a carbon tax, I have set about trying to find viable alternatives to what we are doing.

The David Suzuki Foundation, one of the country's most vocal suppoter groups for environmental change has no ideas at all as to what we should do for alternatives to gas and diesel fuels.

You should see the stupid email I got from them.
I have saved it for my "SCRAP THE TAX" campaign. And I am on record as saying that a tax to discourage use of fossil fuels is crazy when there is no alternative. It is simply a money grab on the part of this government.

I call that a "Punishment Tax" We are being punished by being prosperous.

Well my dear, in Canada, you can get a 75% deduction on political contributions. And if we don't get some help to kill this in BC, you are going to get it tacked onto your already difficult situation.
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That sounds interesting. I will have to join a party sometime or the other. I will have to see whether the party I always vote here has the same idea. I do not like the idea of the price of food going up. We were in Superstore this afternoon and we were planning to make some tacos and get some chili, but the price of the cans was more than we could afford. Luckily I have some beans and hamburger at home so I will make it myself. But when the fresh vegetables and salads go up, we have a problem.

Here in Canada, we have always had higher gas prices and we really envied the Canadians, but with the biofuels, like ethanol from corn, and telling farmers to switch from wheat to corn has had a bad effect on the price of food. I wonder what are the people going to eat? I mean even for me who has a slight wheat and corn tolerance, when they switch to eating rice, there will not be enough for everyone to go around. I do not want people to sit in their houses because they cannot go out and not everyone is close enough to walk to the grocers. They really should not have torn down all those corner grocery stores when they built those malls.

Food is already up. Bread has gone from $1.09 for the store brand to $1.38 and do not think of buying the healthy breads. They are almost $4.00 a loaf. And when there is corn of the cob on sale, everyone is grabbing and hoarding as much as they can because it has gone up. It will soon be too expensive to eat. We do not have a garden because my husband did not want one, so now if I want to grow something, I will have to go for container gardening.

We paid $200 last month on our gas bill. That's how bad it is in winter.

I feel for people that have to pay out huge amounts for a necessity. Especially when they have no control over the cost.

Small cars are all right for people with small families but what do you do with my friends who have four or more children, and some own their own businesses? They need their vans to carry stuff, make deliveries, etc. as well as take the children to school. You cannot say to people in the Western World, stop having too many children because you drive them to school even though the weather is cold so someone in Africa or Asia who walks and uses donkeys for transportation can have more children.

This year alone everything is going up, first the fuel then the stable food. Wheat has gone up by 170% since beginning of the year, now the rice which most Asian people depend on also run into shortage, what next? What do you think we should grow little vegies for reducing the costs of living?

I heard that the Arabians are. They have lots of oil that they do not want to release. Also here, we have oil in Alaska, and in Canada, oil in Manitoba but there are the enviromentalists who are blocking it. They think that by making sure we cannot drive our cars or take the bus (for the poor people) we will think up a solution. In other word, punishing us. The trouble with that thinking is that there has to be an alternative in the works that will not affect the food supply, like wind power, or geothermo energy. So what are people to do in the meantime? Starve and stay home and freeze?

We saw a couple of those mini cars, when we went to that League Day and even though there were six of us, they glared at us and there were two of them in this car that looked like a dinky car. And when my husband and I were at the medical clinic a while ago, we were looking at the hydro cars and the hybrid cars and there are large family sized cars out there. I do not believe they should double the tax on gas guzzling vehicles until they offer a reasonable alternative. So far those hybrid cars and hydro cars a bit too expensive. My husband was saying they have the means to produce complete electric cars and once they do, then people will not have to worry about the gas prices because there will be an alternative.
By not getting on the ball and making these cars, it does look like a case of 'the
West must be punished." Even the remark about doubling the gas price shows a punish necessary point of view. It will punish those who have large families and use vans, those who are farmers and use trucks, those who use large vehicles. We all do not want just dinky cars. We want to be able to have enough room for groceries and the stuff we picked up at Home Depot.

I think the ones who wanted higher gas prices need a good kick in the behind. They went about it the wrong day. Their idea was that the West has to be punished, especially in America, and that also includes Canada to the North, and one way was to raise the price of oil. Now that was not enough, they had to find a way to punish us by raising the price of food, so here comes ethanol that they make from corn. And if there is not enough corn for fuel, then tell the farmers to stop growing wheat, but grow corn for ethanol instead. But even though there is solar energy, wind farms, geothermo, electric cars, and hydro and hybrid cars, and other ways of thinking, the emphasis has not been on them, but on making the Westerners suffer because we have way too much of this world's goods.
I think this is tied in with the global warming fiasco.