Get Off The Gas!!!

If you want to be frustrated, try asking someone associated with the petroleum industry for an explanation into high gas prices.

There is a basic line of logic with each answer, but the reasons can differ with each person giving the explanation.

So what can we do?

I had a viewer tell me they weren't going to start driving their SUV again until gas dipped back down to around $2 dollars a gallon.

Two dollars?

It's unlikely you'll ever see $3 dollars again.

One simple answer from Triple-A is to try and use less gas.

Carpool, do all your errands in one trip or not waiting until the tank is empty to fill up.

Using less gas is suppose to equal a drop in price.

But maybe the answer can be found in your right foot.

Ease up on the gas.

I'm sitting at a stop light recently, right next to a jacked-up Duramax Diesel truck.

The light turns green and the DD driver punches the gas.

I'm driving my wife's Avalon.

It doesn't look, sound or feel like a race car. It gets good gas mileage and has a little giddy-up if you need it.

I didn't.

Despite my mild acceleration, I managed to stay next to DD for several hundred yards, when he backed off the gas.

As I started to SLOWLY pass him, he jumped the gas AGAIN.

With the price of diesel already eclipsing $4 a gallon I looked over in disbelief and laughed.

One of the cars I drove for a short time in high school and college was a '71 Cutlass 442 convertible.

A monster of a machine with a 455 Rocket Olds, 4 barrel carb, competition cam, hi-rise intake manifold and posi-traction.

You could hit the gas from a dead stop and not move.

The back of the car would lift up off the ground as both tires spun, before the heat and traction finally took hold of the asphalt and rocketed you forward.

Of course, that kind of driving usually resulted in about 6 miles per gallon.

Then again, regular gas was about .75 cents a gallon when I started driving in 1979.

It's almost 30 years later and gas is around $3.50 and diesel even more ridiculous.

Hey Mario, SLOW DOWN!!! It's a truck for goodness sake.

You're making gas more expensive for the rest of us.