Gas prices are rising, and it’s mostly a good thing.

If that sounds absurd, I get it. No one likes to pay more, myself included. But when it comes to fossil fuels, we’ve got to start paying full price or we’ll never get out of this mess.

By “this mess” I’m referring to the climate crisis, of course. It’s a nonnegotiable at this point, and we’d be reducing our reliance on fossil fuels a whole lot faster if we weren’t so focused on keeping gas cheap. Hear me out.

Cheap gas enables our bad behavior. Every time we go to a pump and save money we’re incentivized to keep doing it. It’s only with external incentives such as rising prices that most of us will start to change our consumption habits, mostly because without pain humans are likely to take the easiest option. In this case, that’s continuing the use of fossil fuels, even though we know it harms us later.

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