Fuel Prices Gush Sky High

Gas prices right now are almost up to four dollars a gallon. Nobody knows how high these prices will climb, but everybody wants the price fluctuation to switch directions. Few people take the liberty to think about the seemingly unbearable cost of transportation, but everyone has to bear it as costs skyrocket.

“I try not to think about them,” said Senior Ethan Martinez about the current state of gas prices.

English teacher Sarah Wilkinson claims that the price increase doesn’t really affect her much because her husband does all the driving and he just bought a new car with great gas mileage.

The good news for Pennsylvanians is that gas prices are starting to stabilize—even if it is on the other side of the country.  Prices in Los Angeles are no longer changing overnight. In fact, they have only raised a penny in the last week or so, which is quite the opposite of the eight or nine additional cents that Berks County drivers have paid in the last week.

Prices started rising in the late fall, and they have not dropped much since. Reports suggest that gas prices are elevating because of the demand for fuel and because of unrest in the Middle East. Further reports allege that senators are urging President Obama to reduce gas taxation.

Perhaps this crisis will spell the return of carpooling for those who gloried in their gas-guzzling Hummers® only a few years ago.