But just because it's "free" for us doesn't mean it lessens our dependence on oil by any amount.
What we need to endorse are ways to break our dependence on crude oil & petroleum, not just temporary means of saving a few bucks. Even if we don't pay for it ourselves, SOMEONE had to buy that gas. And we're running out. We've already reached our peak oil levels and shit's gotta change or we'll all be left in the dark.
EVERYTHING depends on oil and petroleum, not just gasoline for our cars. From Soft-baked Nabisco cookies to medicine to hair dye. Anything that's been packaged for the mass consumer from gigantic corporations that own everything. Everything in bags, bottles, and boxes. Kinda scary to imagine the world we live in. We read stories like Brave New World in high school and prophesize about other dystopian worlds in movies and such, but we don't realize we're already living in such a world. A world where we as a general public are CLUELESS as to realize JUST how much our daily surroundings are CONTROLLED by higher lords of capital corporations. We may not exactly live in the worlds we see in sci-fi movies, but our current living situation is just as scary when you think about how we are controlled and maneuvered to think, feel, and consume in the ways that we do.
I honestly am not ready for the changes that need to take place in order for us to survive. I do depend on my car when I'm too lazy to walk (which is 99.9% of the time) and I'm too poor of a student to be buying all my food from organic farmers markets or growing my own in my non-existent backyard. I can try to change my habits of consumption and encourage others around me to do the same, but I feel like that isn't enough for myself and others to really break out of the only lifestyle we know of.
I just hope the only way out of this is not when it's too late.
I keep feeling the NEED to DO something, something BIG. Not just by myself but as the people. It's just so hard to break out of our daily obsessions and daily chores to actually DO and not just SAY.