We are spoiled. Oil product pricing should be valued at the true worth of the dollar. For years it has not been.

Now it is catching up because the dollar is being rated around the world at the true rate.

High gas prices will force and has forced us to stay local. Maybe we can get back local v. this global mash we are in. (When the reality of paying the cable bill verses going 40 miles away to buy a t-shirt hits in, you will choose your cable and the closet t-shirt store, although with the new DTV, we have 17 great TV stations in good quality with more on the way as the local stations lease out their sub channels)

Maybe local stores will buy produce local or we will shop at local farmer markets v. eating South American or Mexico produce. (Oh I know, if we buy Mexican produce then they will not jump the fence and come here because they will have worth-while job opps.)

Maybe if it costs $8.00 to go the next big town and back to shop, we will shop at our local stores instead keeping the tax base at home.

Maybe, just maybe, if the cost of driving is too high, we won't need all the massive highway projects and the money can be spent fixing up our local town infrastructures.(Remember the good ole days when the taxes went local)

Maybe, just maybe.

We are to lazy, selfish or just don't care enough to preserve country, world, life, traditions, culture, local ways of life because of the instant availablilty of the consumables that is brought to us by the inventions of Oil products. (All that plastic, wrappings, filler, nearly everything produced is backed by oil in some fashion or another)

Will we? Of course not. We will adapt to the high prices. Adaption is the new America, and slowly we will march to the drummer like the foolish, self-obsurbed instant replay, one-button on, 60 second hot water boiling, oil consumers citizens of the new age.

Feel free to miss the point and bash away. But...when we really close the door to locally centered life, and further go metro or regional, America will keep going into devastation because without local roots, their is no roots. Just maybe the gas at these prices will drive us in the right direction...Home. Now bash me.