Why high gas prices are good...

Gas prices in North America have hit post-Katrina levels. Many people are now calling out for an ease at the pumps but this may be a blessing in disguise.

As much as I would love to stick it to large corporations and companies that pillage the earth of non-renewable resources, I have to look at the bigger picture. Right now the world is on the tipping point of the global climate change crisis, immediate action needs to be taken now. In a nation like Canada where the government has relatively little power or motivation to enact the proper legislation to reverse the global climate trend. This means that any really change needs to come from the private citizens and from capitalism, our preferred economic system.

Right now the supply of gas is meeting demand so that it is relatively cheap to buy gas four our internal fuel combustion, carbon dioxide emitting, gas guzzling engines. But if prices rise ever higher then the demand for alternative energy will rise higher. In a capitalist system, it does not take long for entrepreneurs to see a opportunity to make a quick buck so private citizens will then attempt to meet the demand for alternative energy, thus reducing our impact on global climate change and reducing our dependence on fuel sources from dangerous parts of the world.

So as long as the prices rise at a pace that does not plunge our economic system in to ruin, maybe we can indeed save the planet from all the awful things we continually do to it.

"And all that the Lorax left here in this mess was a small pile of rocks, with one word..."UNLESS."