Price of Gas

It is my belief that high gas prices are in the long run - good for us, despite the fact that it is painful.

1. cheap, readily available gas ultimately indicates a healthy and growing fossil fuel industry.
2. the oil industry carries with it the following results on an ongoing basis:
1. Incentive for international warfare.
2. Global warming.
3. slowness to adopt renewable and sustainable energy models such as hydro, electric, hybrid, bio-diesel, solar and fuel-cell based models.
4. negative effects upon domestic security insofar as; so long as we are dependent on oil, we will always be considerably dependent on foreign (often hostile) sources of it.
5. unfortunate decisions have to be made concerning our natural wilderness (the Anuar for example).
6. The greed precipitated by the inherently limited nature of this sort of fuel spurred great injustice and exploitation in the world such as what is taking place in Nigeria (if you don't know, our oil companies are in there drilling, destroying land, and employing everyone there on a slaves wage creating poverty while we continue to get rich) or the successful Coup d'état of democratically elected Mohammed Mosaddeq (Read up: "Anglo-Iranian" now called BP).
   

In fairness, lets consider the downside of the death of the oil industry:

1. In the short term, it is an expensive proposition while Americans transition to renewable sources of energy.
   * But wait- isn't that what the south was saying about Abolition? They complained that it's expensive for them to loose all that free labor. Weren't many of the grievances before the war merely economic? Hmm...