Fluctuating Gas prices may roll new drivers back to the curb

       

One day you’re driving home from school and your mom asks you to stop and get milk. You look at you gas tank and realize you’re running low. You answer her “sure, but it may take a little longer I need to get gas, and I only have 25 dollars to get both.” You go to get milk, it cost $3.25. Leaves you with $21.75, you think to yourself this is hopefully enough. Stop right there. If we rewound the tape four or five years ago we would see gas simply cost $20 to fill up a whole tank and ran about $2.00 a gallon. You would’ve had more then enough to fill her up. Two or three years ago gas weeble-wobbled up and down from $2.25 to $2.75, but has the price of gas these days made it hard for teenagers to put the petal to the metal?

Most kids have trouble getting jobs, caused by being 16, and taking the early bird route in getting their license. Which is when you go to driving school at 16 and get all your forms, written tests, and the road test completed. If you go this way you’ll be driving before you know it at age 16. Most of us are reliable and should be able to get a job anywhere, but you have to be 18.

            Kids have to pay for gas, insurance, and other expenses they have. Others have their mommies and daddies take care of it. If you’re a part time worker, and you have car insurance bills and school funds these gas prices may hit you like a 18 wheeler. You think with all the driving to school, work, and to run errands or go out to have fun you’re looking at filling up at least two times a week. The prices for gas today go up to $3.25 and at some places even $3.30. Depending on what car you own changes the amount of gallons your car holds, but for now well say 10 gallons. You’re looking at $32.50 every time you get gas, twice a week it comes out to $65 a week. That’s more then any teenager makes in a full days work, and even sometimes more then a kid makes in a week. The prices of gas and ages limitations of getting a job for minimum wage are holding us back as a whole. Not just a piece.