High Gas Prises A Blessing In Disguise

More and more Americans wake up to the need for alternative energy sources for most of them this new awareness has nothing to do with a save the earth conviction but rather it is the response of a consumer that has to pay more for what he wants.

I’ve read a survey that was analyzed at Treehugger saying that sure most Americans blame Washington for the rise of the gas prices and most of them are not very happy with the situation but they are starting to increase the support of alternative energy and energy conservation.

I came to realize that most people care about the environment not because they care about the environment but because they want to be able to keep their way of life.

It is the same with many other things that we took for granted and have stopped working in our lives, we may ask ourselves is this a sign that something was wrong that something was out of balance in my life, or you may try as hard as you can to bring things back to the way they were.

Most Americans are not open yet to the personal growth process, they are not seeking a better understanding about what a balanced relationship with the planet means, they just want what they had back.

The fact that they can’t have the old back doesn’t mean that they are ready for a new more ecological way of thinking it just means that they are willing finally to change their tactics of getting the result that they desire.

It is a start, an important start, but hopefully it would lead for a deeper much more comprehensive shift in the way that we think about earth and our place on it.

In this context I find post such as this from the MarineBio Blog important. People want to eat sushi, they drive the population of the bluepin tuna to the verge of extinction and they limit the fishing now so they can have more tuna next year.

Sure they don’t really care for the tuna but they are able to plan for the future, helping the tune is done to help themselves but when the interests meet at least something is done.

It is the same with the gas prices we want more energy sources so we’ll have electricity and our nice way of life to continue, if the high gas prices lead us to find a source that harm the environment less than we all gained something.