At first glance one sees gas prices in the range of $4 per gallon across the country and just winces and tries to think of happier things but the impact upon lives of the people affected has widespread ramifications that go beyond the obvious.

How many more freeways must turn into parking lots because some person with limited resources and judgement took that moment at the wrong time?

How many more burnt out cars will there be seen on the major and back roads of this country from poor folks who could not afford car payments, auto insurance and oil?

What is the cost in terms of ruined days and happiness turned to sadness because of financial pressure aided and abetted by rapidly climbing oil prices?

Any time one starts to engage with other people beyond their immediate circle then they are impacting lives in ways unseen.

I had a fairly successful ebook on traffic shortcuts in Los Angeles. It sold a few copies. Too few! lol

I sometimes amused myself by wondering if I had pointed anyone off their usual path to some serendipitous circumstance, good or bad.

Take that small example and compare it to how many lives are affected in so many different ways by the out of control rise in gas prices

Life is a series of causes affecting other causes in a domino fashion while each piece has an option to fall, not fall, where to fall, in other words each piece in the dominoes game of life has self determinism but there is still this causes affecting causes factor which can take us down roads that hold surprises. That is the plus and the minus.

So what really is the cost of skyrocketing oil prices?

And more importantly what actions do we have to take as individuals to cease being robbed by large corporations and their deceitful money games?

Some may say that there is nothing that we can do.

But such people might as well be dead and they are just waiting for someone to come along with a shovel.

Just as there are cures for cancer to be found if one does some looking into the existing alternatives, just as there solutions to global warming, the environmental disaster of New Orleans and the health problems of the 911 first responders if these problems would just be confronted and the solutions applied, there is a solution on an individual level to emancipate us from slavery to the oil pump.

Did you know you can lower the gas consumption of a car or truck with water? A hybrid engine using both oil and water can be installed quite easily. A fully hydrogen based system can be implemented with just a bit more know how, resourcefulness and effort.

You will be rewarded withmore money in your pocket, a cleaner environment, a smoother operating automoblie and in so many unforeseen ways that could have rewarding ramifications that it really is wise to make the small investment of time and caring to get your automoblie running on a hydrogen system.