Driving today…..Outrageous!

Fuel efficiency these days’ concern drivers to lose their body weight. Sounds absurd! Obesity does impart voluminous fuel consumption. Well, some relief in some way, at least people would be less appalled with cardiovascular diseases of their sedentary lifestyles; otherwise cities are already traumatized with high sporadic gas prices. The average gasoline price per gallon will hit up to $4 by the end of this summer which is 23 times higher from the last year increment. I abandoned long back my idea of keeping my luxurious car. I couldn’t penalize myself in torment for thinning my wallet.
Present situation is pretty stringent. Heavy government’s restriction to oil manufacturers, environmentalist confronting need with the presumably accelerating global warming, shut down of businesses such as transportations, auto dealers, manufacturers, and citizens dithering for years to see the stabilized fuel prices I am not sure if our Capital Hill occupants have agnized this chaos.
Average American workers, who earn the national average salary, spend 3.3% of their paychecks on gas needed to commute back and forth “only” from work. Even if we assumed for a second that they use their vehicles only to go to work…can you imagine them walking to get their grocery done..??? I can’t. This is only an “average” not considering the workers who make the national “minimum” wage currently spend 11.3% of their salary on commuting gas. Outrageous!
Days are not far when the commuters will be discouraged to go work because of unaffordable gas prices depriving productivity, or our market initiate to stretch our cars to trains. God only knows!
Our former oilman, President Bush signed into law on Dec 19th that requires automakers to increase the average fuel economy of theirs cars and light trucks to 35 miles per gallon by the year 2020. Defining details, recent Europe standard is 40 miles per gallon and inclined up for 49 miles per gallon, Japan anticipates shooting 47 miles per gallon by 2015. Ours scenario is, 47 million average American Families struggle to make ends meet with rising prices for gas, who only want to be able to afford driving their cars. I am questioning myself in riddle is the U.S the part of the world or the world’s most developed nation?
Innovation should not be only where rubber meets the road. It is worth recognizing how Germans use solar and other alternatives for their imports; how Japanese commute with a short walk’s ranges anywhere and with assistance of clean, timely subways/trains. Why can’t we sprout technologies like them here to replace oil with some other substitutes? How comforting it would be when the burden falls less on oil dependent food consumption? I am sure this would have soothed us all to breathe little easily not only by cutting the fuel consumption but also by declining carbon dioxide emissions. The repercussion of high gas price has imposed some serious problems not only to our health but also for consumers and to the industry such as the housing market. The price of materials to build a home today are manifesting to force up the selling price and ultimately require alteration to size of the home because of the builder's cost associated with electricity, transportation for waste disposal are far-flung to count on public transit systems.
Throttling to ease my temporary pain at the gas station, I console myself with a comfort that at least I don’t have to wait for hours and hours in the line to get my vehicle’s tank filled. I am at least capable to pamper myself with four wheelers. I still feel obligated to make a dent by addressing this geopolitical turmoil which has affected so many of our lives. It never ceases to astonish me, why are we waiting this long to increase supply and decrease demand? Let’s hope our hard earned dollar that we all had lost at the pump would get compensated to research and necessary infrastructure that needed concerted acknowledgement.

Rescuing ourselves….. Together

Unspoken words and plenty to say! Life gift us a moment so marvelous, so overwhelming, every once in a while that we almost shine. I am sure many of us have experienced one like that. Admittedly, I envisioned the glimpse of the world beyond my walls. But before I came to this turn point, many times I was crumbled and then I rescued myself. Strangely enough, I learned as much from my failures as from my successes, if not more.
Sounds like I am living in almost updated version of my life. Wow! This reminds me of old words of wisdom: “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” At times in deep fiasco, I hold on to my dreams. I have concluded that it is not possible to witness seamless outcomes all the times, however one shouldn’t not shrugged off one’s own ventures. Life without it would be dawdled back.
The fact is we cannot make every body lives felicitous. I may encounter an exquisite repose for having said this, but I know myself how many times have I boggled my mind and have exhausted myself over to become a Good Samaritan. These days I have made my life less sophisticated, if people are pricks; they are usually suffering in one way or another anyway. Neither would I dare to concern myself with remedying the situation because none of us lack in basic aptitudes, as we have made this far from home by ourselves. This has been my serious attempts to simplify my life. I have been trying my best to rescue myself since then in search of an inspiring deck. Not that I am claustrophobic, but my desires are not wretched for longing to create healthier brink to live a quality life.
I also agree with the fact that the responsibility of each of us is not to pave the road for others, but to provide a map. However, a little questioning invariably brings out that how much of people’s problems can we fix it or should we be in charge of our problems and seek for solutions or perhaps both? Human by nature are egocentric. It is a bit humbling to substantiate our traits. We give lukewarm support when it comes to contribution. This is not my criticism; we are very cohesive when forming a group, we are intrepid when the word of mouth has to be well deservedly served, we like to live by owning other’s gratitude consistently. I sincerely want to rescue myself from these acquisitions.
Contemplating, I have confessed that the problem lies within us. We semblance over to some unfulfilled circumstances when we know our lives are mired with both grief and rejoice. We mastered over to some complicated and high-tech gadgets. How could we make vulnerable to ourselves and we live with vain underestimating the power of our own thoughts? We all have made this far to achieve more, leaving our family, hometown behind. We could walk further two more steps to encounter incredible appreciation from our lives. And if my words are not assuring, please ask with a patient who is paralyzed and lies down all day along on the bed with a hope for miracle to happen so that he could walk out of the bed and see the sunlight? How heartbreaking is that when someone with so much misery, still struggles everyday to live with a smile and feels fortunate to be alive? I analyzed myself how pathetic we are then, not only we are worthless in comforting with ease for others but also to our own self.

Let’s get rescued together before we hit the disaster of unrewarding apprehension of our lives. Lets march together to strive to become fittest of the fit inhabitants, lets leave our mark off for tomorrow, optimistically.