Double Edged Sword

It’s funny, because one half of me wants petroleum products to return to lower prices because there’s a certain amount of driving our family must continue to do, and living in the northeast also means high heating bills. The other half wants the price of oil to remain high in hopes that some hidden lazy genius will finally get angry and motivated enough to awake from his or her slumbers and figure out an alternative energy source.
I’ve also observed through the period when gas prices were at their highest, that the people who could afford those giant SUV’s in the first place had no problem paying for the gas either; no one suffered, starved or cut back on anything else, and only a slight grumbling could be heard in their conversations. I’m picturing the elite "soccer mom" driving the big Sequoia around to all the various lessons and activities that probably cost more than the thing uses in gas anyway. On the other hand, I’ve seen many more hybrid or tiny gas efficient cars on the road along with mopeds, scooters and bicycles that never were there before, so high prices have done their work on some.