But I want to Keep My First Born Child

I wanted to purchase my plane tickets to move to Scotland yesterday. One for me, one for my brother who is so very kindly helping me with my son on the flight over as I will be too pregnant to hold him the whole flight, and of course one for my lap child.
I expertly signed into expedia as I have done so many times before, typed in the abbreviation for the airports I would be flying in and out of, and then almost f ell out of my chair when I saw the price they were asking per plane ticket.
1 ticket to Scotland: Your right arm
2 tickets to Scotland: Your first born

I have never in my life paid that much for an international ticket. Darn these climbing gas prices.
Whenever I go into the "I can remember when gas was 73 cents per gallon" rant, my mom comes back with "I remember when gas was 10 cents a gallon."

I hope someday I will be saying "I remember when we used gasoline to fuel cars." and my kids will be saying "Remember when you had to sell our big brother for plane tickets because gas was so high? That's so silly, why didn't you start using Ethenol/hydrogen/compost for fuel sooner?"

I havent asked in a few weeks as I feel it's a bit of a sore subject, but I believe that "petrol" as they call it, in the UK is around 3 pounds per liter of gas. that is approximately $5.00 of 1 litre of gas. there are 3.8 liters in 1 gallon of gas. So they are paying about $19.00 a gallon for gas right now.... That is so depressing I'm not even going to round up to $20...
I put $50.01 of gas in my car last week, it didn't even fill it all the way up... I drive a tiny little Honda accord. if it continues to cost me $50+ for gas each week, I really think it is becoming more econmoical to put money into alternitive fuels, different cars that run off different fuel resources.
Personally I am an ethinol fan. It helps the local farmers, it's made from renewable resources, it's by-product is feed for cattle, it's a higher octane fuel, and burns cleaner, making it more envirnmentally friendly. It is beer in it's purest form, and denaturing it with oil will still help us keep up our public relations with other countries, and make the oil tycoons happy. ( moderately) But something must be done.
in my lifetime we have made the switch from Records, to casette tapes, to CD's to MP3's. From Film projectors, to video's to DVD's to Blue Ray. If we can choose this quickly between High Def and Blue ray, I think we can make a decision between which alternative fuel to go to, but it doesn't really matter, just pick one and DO SOMETHING!
When I live in Scotland, I want to be able to visit my family back here without having to sell my children on ebay.
Is that really too much to ask??