Enough is enough

by Nicholas Papadopolous

Wednesday, April 16, the price for a barrel of crude oil was raised to record high of $114. The price raise is a combination of the U.S. dollar getting weaker, the supply of crude oil decreasing, and the oil businessmen getting greedier.
Yesterday, when I went to fill up my gas tank, it cost me $3.24 per gallon. I don’t know how I am expected to pay for gas anymore. Everyday, I am driving to Magoun field for baseball, my job for work, and my friend’s house for fun. It seems that I am steadily draining my money away with each passing mile.
Having varsity baseball six days a week makes it tough to work. So recently, I have only been able to log 10 hours a week at a maximum. At $10 per hour, that gives me about $100 to spend per week. I have to take $50 dollars out per week for gas, and that leaves me with $50 to spend for a whole week.
I think that our grand country should start either selling electric cars at an affordable price, or mandate that car manufacturers sell cars with about a 40 mpg engine. Otherwise, I feel that cars may be a rarity to anybody other than upper-class citizens.
Also, I believe oil businessmen who are billionaires should stop making such a profit on oil. After you have so much money that you can’t spend it all, what is the drive that makes you demand more and more?
It seems as though my generation is being punished for other generations’ problems. Perhaps when our generation is older, we will be able to find alternative energy sources and not use nature’s fossil fuels like the generation before us.