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.

Start by thinking of how many traffic jams are being caused across the nation because some poor fellow couldn't afford gas and hoped there was enough in their engine to get them home while the gauge showed empty

How many more skeletons of car or trucks will there be on the Belt Parkway from poor folks who afford car payments, auto insurance and gasoline?

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

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

I was selling an ebook online which shared secret shortcuts to avoiding the legendary traffic 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 surprising 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 probabilities, causes which cause other things which lead us in directions that hold surprises. That is the plus and the minus.

So what really is the cost of outrageous gasoline prices?

And how do we, as individuals, as pieces in the dominoes game of life that still manage to have self determinism take the right actions so as to cease being robbed by large corporations and their deceitful money games?

There are those who reject that they have self determinism or that their self determinism is sufficient to make any great changes in their fate.

But such people are already dead and they are just waiting for someone to come along with a shovel.

In today's world there are cures for cancer to be found if one insists on looking, just as there solutions to global warming, the environmental waste of New Orleans and the respiratory ailments of the 911 first responders if one just decides to find the answers and the solutions applied, a solution exists also to free us from slavery to the gasoline pump.

Did you know you can lower the gas consumption of a vehicle with water? A hybrid engine using both gasoline and water can be installed quite easily. A fully hydrogen based system can be implemented with just a bit of study, resourcefulness and effort.

You will be rewarded witha higher balance in your bank account, a cleaner environment, a happier gasoline guzzler 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 gasoline guzzler converted to a hydrogen system.