What's worse: Global warming or high gas prices?

Question

Now that I'm pregnant, I'm concerned about both but I can't decide which is worse.

I heard that gas prices will reach $5 per gallon by the end of June but I also heard that the Great Lakes are depleteting.

I'm sad now.

Answer 1

HIGH GAS PRICE OH MY GOSH! DONT GET ME STARTED ON THAT, IT IS RIDICULOUS HOW MUCH WE PAY FOR A GALLON. BUT AT A TIME LIKE THIS THERES ONLY ONE PERSON TO BLAME.....

GEORGE BUSH!

WHO AGREES?

P.S I WONT START GIVING A c**p ABOUT 'ICE CAPS MELTING BLAH DE BLAH' UNTIL THEY LOWER THE PRICE.

Answer 2

global warming it effects everything gas prices just effect our economy, but not the trees, animals ect, we need to be less selfish  as a species and protect the planet weve been blessed with

Answer 3

hmm death or a lil extra change from the pocket...well not neccesarily death but if youve seen the movie WaterWorld global warming doesnt look to nice

Answer 4

i would go with high gas prices.  It effects everything across the board.  Diesel already here in california is above 5 dollars and that is the worst I have ever seen.  I am glad we are getting a new President because the man we have now seems preoccupied and should be doing more to bring down the oil prices.

Answer 5

I would say global warming

just thinking of polar bears dieing gives me shivers

Answer 6

Both, They go hand in hand. But you can survive with high gas prices, if the earth goes crazy  cause of global warming we all could die off.

Answer 7

The great lakes will deplete even faster if we move to a hydrogen economy.

Answer 8

I dont know about global warming. Its almost June and I am freezing (I know it doesnt work that way... just being sarcastic)

Well maybe we wont have to worry as much about global warming if the gas prices are higher and people stop using as much gas...... Wow is there a higher power up there balancing everything out? or is it a world conspiracy to reduce global warming.....

wow i apologize..... dont be sad, you have a baby on the way! money doesnt matter! enjoy being pregnant, raise your baby and let the professionals handle the rest!

Answer 9

High gas prices will take care of GW global warming, CC climate change, Save the Planet, Carbon Footprint.

Higher Prices is already reducing demand, people are driving less, burning less, polluting the air and water less.

We'll just keep raising gas prices so fewer and fewer can afford to burn all the oil and gas that's polluting the air and the water.

Stop all the oil drilling. Answar's a pristine wilderness with no people, no drilling for oil. There's more oil off the Florida and California coasts. But here there are people, so no drilling for oil. Less oil higher oil prices.

Stop shipping oil. Oil spills poison the environment; no pipelines, no super tankers.

No war for oil, no blood for oil.

Stop buying foreign oil with money we borrow from China.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/do...

"...In 1982, ...there were 301 operable refineries in the U.S., and they produced about 17.9 million barrels of oil per day. Today there are only 149 refineries, but they're producing 17.4 million barrels – less than in 1982, but more than any year since then. The increase in efficiency is impressive, but it's not enough to meet demand: U.S. oil consumption is 20.7 million barrels per day. Refinery capacity isn't the only factor in the price of gasoline, and according to the EIA it's not the most important one either (that would be the cost of crude oil), but it's certainly a contributor.

Existing refineries have been running at or near full capacity since the mid-1990s, but are failing to meet daily consumption demands. Yet there hasn't been a new refinery built in the U.S. since 1976..."

No new oil refineries. Refining oil into fuel means more cars, trucks, and planes and more pollution; from the cars and from the refineries. As these old refineries wear out and can't keep up, gas prices will go up more, and we'll have to pay more and import more. So gas prices should continue to rise and there will be fewer SUVs and less pollution.

People will get serious about taking the bus. Mass transit and light commuter rails are already getting more riders. More people are shopping for better cars and even bicycles.

As energy prices keep rising, People will pay more money. Then they will pay more attention and not just lip service to conservation, and ecology.

The attention's on gas prices now as we go into the summer driving season. The TV said just over this past Memorial Day w/e there was a 1% drop in driving. This is an improvement. Airfares are going up. All transportation cost are rising with rising oil and gas prices.

Freight cost will effect the economic and ecologic impact of bottling and shipping drinking water. Some of us are already aware of the importance of eating local produce. Water is heavy and expensive to ship.

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After the summer driving season come the winter heating season. As oil and energy prices stay high and go higher more people will be wearing sweaters and turning down thermostats, switching to fluorescents, using less hot water, CONSERVING.

Global Warming, Climate Change, Energy Conservation, Carbon Foot Print Reduction. The slogans and bumper stickers, and good intentions don't have near the impact as MONEY.

At $4.00/ gal people are thinking again about that SUV, but they're still on the road. Some are saying $200 oil and $8 gas. And if that's not high enough...

[READ the below carefully.  Once you're past the headline and look at the actual increase of less than 1 degree F you may worry less.  It's getting warmer, yes; but...]

Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007) — The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F...

...Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74°C. But this rise has not been continuous. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years...

...2007 global temperatures have been averaged separately for both hemispheres. Surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere are likely to be the second warmest on record, at 0.63°C above the 30-year mean (1961-90) of 14.6°C/58.3°F. The southern hemisphere temperature is 0.20°C higher than the 30-year average of 13.4°C/56.1°F, making it the ninth warmest in the instrumental record since 1850.

January 2007 was the warmest January in the global average temperature record at 12.7°C/54.9°F, compared to the 1961-1990 January long-term average of 12.1°C/53.8°F...

Global 10 Warmest Years Mean Global temperature (°C) (anomaly with respect to 1961-1990)

1. 1998 0.52

2. 2005 0.48

3. 2003 0.46

4. 2002 0.46

5. 2004 0.43

6. 2006 0.42

7. 2007(Jan-Nov) 0.41

8. 2001 0.40

9. 1997 0.36

10. 1995 0.28

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Answer 10

Really.

Are you saved?

If so, don't worry about any of it.

We are in the last days, anyway, and it will all be a moot point.