Ideas for my First Short Essay

As of now, I am planning on writing about idea number 3 on our assignment sheet. As we talked about it in class on Tuesday, I was very fascinated by the question of whether or not American's will choose to go back to their old habits if gas prices begin to go down. Personally, I think, yes, they will go back to old habits, but here is where my research will come in handy. So far, I've done a little research and I have found two different articles on this topic and one agrees with me (The Boston Globe), that American's will fall back on old habits if prices go down, but the other (The New York Times) disagrees with my opinion and thinks they will continue to be conservative.