This strange countdown to higher cost gasoline proves to me that complacency has overwhelmed and curtailed the kind of consumer outrage that would in years past resulted in immediate Federal Government action.

Case in point:

Back in the ’70’s the speed limit was rolled back to 55 mph and it saved gas plus we all got a lot better gas mileage because of of it. Today’s cars get their best mileage at about 62-65 mph… Reducing from 75 mph to 65 mph could save the average driver 10-15% fuel… but nobody’s talking about it.

There could be an organized national no-drive day. Everyone picks one day a week and simply does not use their car. Probably very doable with an immediate result because you’d have a full day’s worth of fuel not pulled out of the pipeline each week. Fuel stocks would rise, price would go down…but nobody’s talking about it.

Have you changed your personal driving habits over the last few weeks?

Or are you just pulling out the credit card and your denial as the cost of filling up your twenty gallon gas tank heads toward 100 bucks?

By the way did you know that at the current price of oil, which is around $135 plus (as I’m writing this), the actual cost of a gallon of gasoline should be around $6 or more! You see, that high priced oil hasn’t hit the refineries yet.

Did you know that if you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn the heat up a frog will not jump out of the pan of hot water…no matter how hot it gets. Is this happening to you? Are you becoming “frog soup”?

The ripple effect of high oil prices is forcing one of the largest inflationary spirals since the 1970’s. Dow chemical announced an across the board 20% increase to their customers starting next month… Watch for this type of thing to start happening with a lot of “raw materials”…

To put things into perspective: This is a price increase at the most basic level of the raw ingredients used to grow food and make things.

FYI: A twenty percent increase in the cost of raw materials doesn’t reflect itself in an item costing 20% more. By the time you purchase that item you will pay 5 to 10 times that cost. If the raw material cost an additional $5 to the manufacturer, you will pay $50 - $100 more for the item… not $5 more.

This is one of those times in your life when you should get out some paper and a pencil and start figuring out how you are going to adjust your lifestyle to the upcoming changes. It’s better to have some kind of strategy than sit like a frog while the water gets hotter.

The Intentional Prosperity™ System provides the information and techniques to create whatever lifestyle changes are necessary for you to have abundance in your life.

No matter what the price of gasoline happens to be.

-Bob Baran