Will we get back to our cars? by Barbora Misakova

When the financial crisis came everyone was talking about fuel and oil prices. They were constantly growing up and no one could stop them. While newspapers were full of articles about repeatedly increased oil prices we were almost desperate about the situation and thinking hard how we would live. After a short time, when prices were still the same and no positive change was coming, lot of modern magazines started writing about new ecological and healthier way of life. “When we stopped using the cars we could keep our body and mind in good conditions” they wrote. When we start using our bicycles instead of cars it will have a good influence on our health as well as on the other aspects of our life such as environment and traffic situation in the city. When we finally cope with the idea that our cars will be from now used less than our bicycles, when we finally started avowing to this new way of life, economy started playing game with us again.
I am always saying that things we want the most never come to us. But as soon as we stop thinking about them, they will appear quickly. And this is what really happened now. Sometimes economy reminds me a little kid – it will be playing with you, and fighting with you for a doll unless you find something different to play with. After quite a long period of constant growing of oil and crude prices we just resigned and found a new source and way of transportation. What is more, we even find it better somehow. And what happened? Oil prices dropped more than 7 percent and tumbled nearly $100 from about $147 a barrel in July. US crude settled at $49.62 a barrel, what is the lowest settlement since May 2005. I would like to know how all the people riding to the work and school on bicycles will react now. Will they stay tuned on this new healthier way of life, or will they get back to their comfortable seats in the cars?


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by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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