<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3724b548-5662-4487-8435-31aadedaa4ba/F02F0F3C-3B01-4BA8-9D43-7CE61B482071/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/" href="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thewisdomjournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/"><STRONG>1. High gas prices are causing America to rethink it’s dependency on foreign oil.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/"><P><STRONG>2. High gas prices are causing people to drive slower to conserve fuel. </STRONG>What’s the positive here? Fewer highway deaths. According to an <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-05-08-gasprices_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip">article in USA Today</A>, there have been fewer highway deaths every month since October of 2007…just when the current run up in gas prices began in earnest.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/"><P><STRONG>5. High gas prices are causing more people to </STRONG><A href="http://frugaldad.com/2008/02/07/riding-my-bike-to-work-to-save-money-and-lose-weight/"><STRONG>ride bicycles</STRONG></A> <STRONG>or walk to work.</STRONG> What would happen to our society as a whole if a significant portion of the population had to exercise just to get to work? We would potentially see our health care costs go down and our life expectancies go up!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/high-gas-prices/"><P><STRONG>6. High gas prices are increasing interest in mass transit and </STRONG><A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-09-alternativetransport_N.htm"><STRONG>van pools</STRONG></A>. What is the direct result? More interaction between people, fewer headaches trying to find a parking space, less fuel consumed, more ideas exchanged (in the van), and more revenue for cities that utilize mass transit systems.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F02F0F3C-3B01-4BA8-9D43-7CE61B482071/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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