‘Wouldn’t it be Nice if the High Gas Prices Brought Back Hitchhiking?’

I spent ten days hitchhiking in Morocco a few months ago, admittedly with a male companion, and had only positive experiences. We never waited more than ten minutes for a ride and traveled hundreds of miles for free. Even got invited into people’s homes and taken out for meals.  It was a first for me (hitchhiking), and only made me want to try it again…just not in America.

Hitch hiking is back. In cities like Atlanta that have HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes, drivers pickup hitch hikers (called slugs) to qualify to use the high speed lanes.

I prefer another solution:
FOREIGN WARS OR DOMESTIC OIL
 
  If the US Government spent a trillion dollars over 8 years on domestic oil production from known reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, the Continental Shelf and coal gasification instead of War in Iraq gas would be $2 a gallon or less. America could quit sending billions to countries that sponsor terrorism. And reducing our trade imbalance keeps jobs in America. Every billion of trade deficit costs 13,000 jobs. $400 billion for oil last year: do the math.
 
  America has 1/4th the coal on planet earth. South Africa is producing 300,000 barrels of gas and diesel a day from coal. And synthetic fuel from coal is cleaner burning than gas. And it can be produced cheaper than from $100+ a barrel crude oil.

  Harness your anger at the pump. Call you’re US Senators and demand domestic production in this decade. Raise your voice or the oil companies and politicians will assume you are ready to pay even more.