Monday, April 21, 2014

High Gas Prices

Summer is here so get ready to pay more for gasoline.  My question today is why does the price of gas seem to go up faster than the rate we can produce vehicles with better gas mileage?  The price of gas often depends on what investors think the price of gas or oil will be in the future.  When future gas or oil prices are projected to be high, the price gets bid up even higher.  Unfortunately, when the commodity price gets driven up, the one who pays is you!
Since technology exists to remove dependency on gas, why is it not happening faster?  It probably isn’t the ago old conspiracy that the government benefits from greater fuel consumption, but the fact that battery production is suffering.  Production demands have delayed several vehicles from making it to production.  Until manufacturers can figure out how to produce HEV (hybrid electric vehicles), PHEV (plugin hybrid electric vehicles) and/or EV (electric vehicles), we will just have to suffer from high gas prices.

I really do miss the days when I would take my rabbit convertible for a nice ride through the country.  With gas prices today, those joyrides are a thing of the past.


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