Time Magazine got some good pieces from time to time. Amanda Ripley lists 10 reasons to actually like today’s oil price.
Less pollution is obvious, but off course important and good thing about expensive oil and gasoline. If driving makes us bankrupt, we’ll probably park the car. Actually higher expenses connected to driving is seen as the best way to cut the pollution from automobiles.
In the western world we love to live in suburbs. The countryside-city mixed areas gives us space for four bathrooms and garden parties. But the way our communities are planned and built makes us car dependent. Real estate agents in the USA tell about a growing demand for homes closer to cities.
More surprisingly things like four days work week and more cops in the street are also listed as consequences of the oil price.
But most important of all is human life. If you are age 5 through 34, you are more likely to die in traffic than any other way. Less driving means that lives will spared. Gas prices at $4 per gallon for a year or more can save 1000 people from dying in traffic each month, writes Ripley.
That’s something to think about!
