Addiction is a hard thing to over come and there are many out there who can not overcome the withdrawal hurdle. But it is necessary, necessary for health, happy hole living and so on.
The sad thing is that there are many addicts out there have no idea that they are dependant on something. SO dependant that it is affecting their economic standing and family lives and half the time they do not even notice that there can be another way of life.
Addiction
-A state of physiological or psychological dependence on a potentially harmful drug
-great interest in a particular thing to which a lot of time is devoted
Dependence
-reliance on or trust in somebody or something for help or support
-a physical or psychological need to use a drug or other substance regularly, despite the fact that it is likely to have a damaging effect
Withdrawals
-a period during which somebody addicted to a drug or other addictive substance stops taking it, causing the person to experience painful or uncomfortable symptoms
Supply and demand
- The relationship between the availability of a good or service and the need or desire for it among consumers
- The law of demand states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a good, the less people will demand that good. In other words, the higher the price, the lower the quantity demanded. The amount of a good that buyers purchase at a higher price is less because as the price of a good goes up, so does the opportunity cost of buying that good. As a result, people will naturally avoid buying a product that will force them to forgo the consumption of something else they value more- The law of supply demonstrates the quantities that will be sold at a certain price... This means that the higher the price, the higher the quantity supplied. Producers supply more at a higher price because selling a higher quantity at a higher price increases revenue.- When supply and demand are equal (i.e. when the supply function and demand function intersect) the economy is said to be at equilibrium. At this point, the allocation of goods is at its most efficient because the amount of goods being supplied is exactly the same as the amount of goods being demanded. Thus, everyone (individuals, firms, or countries) is satisfied with the current economic condition. At the given price, suppliers are selling all the goods that they have produced and consumers are getting all the goods that they are demanding.
- If the price is set too high, excess supply will be created within the economy and there will be allocative inefficiency.
That is unless we are referring to oil and its products. The price going up should cause demand to go down. As you can tell, although people try, this is different with gas. People use as much as they need, or want, because they ‘need’ through addiction and dependence. Gas prices will go up and up and up because people will not give up their precious oil. Just like an addict to keep paying the dealer price hikes to get their fix. The Oil companies are no better then drug dealers supplying poison to hopelessly dependant addicts.
What will it take to get off the oil? Withdrawal will be painful. But every recovering addict will tell you that they miss the old ways but the new way is even better. The problem people have now is that they see no other way and are so caught up in the comfort zone of a known fix to look for another.
There is a co-op for electricity trying to find a new way, trying to show people that oil is not the only way and that oil is having a negative impact on their lives and environment.
How will this addicted America get out of the oil rut?
With electricity?
-Might be just as hard and uneconomical to come by as oil.
With a new invention?
-Maybe but people are stuck on oil and not looking.
With Poverty and death? Sometimes it seems so.
None of it will change unless we do.
http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3.asp
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Good Blog! I like the approach of using addiction to refer to our tendencies to avoid change.
Thank you.
~T
All truths are easy to understand once discovered; The point is to discover them ~Galileo