Cheap Gas-at What Price?
I must confess that purchasing gas at $2.04 per gallon has been giving me a frisson of delight lately, helping to stretch my Social Security monthly "raise" of $29 for 2015 just a little bit further. And as I'm trying to be truly and deliberately frugal this year in order to save for a 2016 trip to Africa, most likely my last to that beautiful and much loved but far-away place. So one part of me is rejoicing, truly relishing the money saved. But another part of me- the responsible, environmentally- concerned part, the part that cares deeply about the care of this benighted planet which is our home- can't help but ask what the price of these low prices really is. The proposed Keystone pipeline, fracking, expanded off-shore drilling all have or will have a detrimental effect on our "home", yours and mine. And what is even more important to me is the question of what kind of environmental legacy we will be leaving to our grandchildren and future...