Watch for More Ridiculous Gas Prices
I have a prediction. Albeit not a difficult one, but I would still like your attention. Before the summer is over, gas is going to be $5 a gallon. I know we just discussed the value (perceived value, that is) of buying a hybrid car to try and dissuade the rising cost of fuel in our seemingly never ending quest to get to our jobs everyday, but gas is an important issue right now.
I have an uncle who has a large hand in writing policy for the EPA and last winter I asked him if it would not be until gas was at $10 before people pitched a big enough fit to stop buying gas like we are now. He said it would be closer to $6. At the time I thought that was too low, but now I have changed my tune. With all due respect, I do not write policy for the EPA so who am I to disagree anyway? Another issue he sighted was that until we are all driving vehicles that get 100 mpg at a minimum, there would not be a significant change for any sort of economic OR environmental benefit…but then again we sort of talked about that yesterday.
To be honest, I know that gas is not really the most expensive fluid on the planet and I would be totally ok with it being as it is for a number of years, if only it would just stay. A big part of our anger comes from the fact every time we blink the price goes up. For almost no reason. Its not so much the actual price that gets me, its the rate at which it increases. A dollar increase over a few years is not too bad but a few months? How does Big Oil sleep at night? Yea I know…probably very comfortably…with pillows stuffed with cash.
One of the more immediate repercussions of this new “Gas Crunch,” (did I just make that term up?), is the airlines: starting June 15, American Airlines has announced that they are going to start charging $15 for each checked bag. This is not the only thing they are doing to stay alive either. There are widespread layoffs, flight cancellations, and even experiments with flight times to see if by flying slower they can save a few dollars. You know how driving 55 mph in your car is the most fuel efficient way to go? They are now doing it with planes. Who knew that we were all speeding up there?
So how does Milk Your Money try to help? By finding you the best places to find a cheaper ticket of course! Every time we find a site that aggregates an airlines “web discount” we are going to post it. The latest one is Mobissimo. We do not get any sort of referral or award for providing these, just trying to help out. Keep in mind that we don’t check every possible ticket or location, just that the possibility exists for you to dig a little deeper and milk your money a little more. Be sure to take the check out as far as you feel comfortable and that the prices your are looking at is for the correct number of travelers. Its worth a look. Once we get a few more, we will compile them and have a listing. You should probably subscribe so you don’t miss anything.. 
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What’s interesting is when I travel to other countries I see a ton of smaller cars. Here, a ton of gas guzzlers. Seems a real correlation to gas prices.