Gas May Soon Cost $7 and $10 a gallon...

[Bouncer]

If you think it would, then you haven't paid much attention to history

Maybe its you that doesn't pay much attention to history. What would you call the depression? i think most would consider that a shutdown.

[toolwtf]

We would adapt and survive and life would go on even with $10 gas. Things would definitely suck, but the USA would not shut down. If you think it would, then you haven't paid much attention to history and the resiliency of this country.

[babyblues]

Babyblues, this article illustrates what you're saying...

Why we're stuck with insane prices - MSN Money

I like it....:D It seems the decline of our economy is caused by a lack of confidence from consumers than any actual threats or deterants to our economic prosperity. I guess you could say the greatest threat is ourselves.

[The_Grinder]

fuk were gonna have to ride mopeds/ motorcyles like Grinder does.

:rofl: haters!

[bigscott]

This is about how much gas costs in the United Kingdom, thats why they all drive tiny cars or take the trains. America would be fine if gas went to $10 per gallon. People would adapt. They would ride bikes and take advantage of public transit.

really and who is going to deliver goods and services -- 10 $ a gallon of gas -- bro you would be paying damn near that for a loaf of bread -

the cost of shipping and delivering would be passed onto us -- the cost of everything would go up tremendously -

hence -- shut us down - crime rate will skyrocket along with poverty rate etc etc - hell i wouldnt want to be the guy delivering the gas :hang:


all this while the towel heads that hold the oil over our heads sit in the drivers seat making record profits by selling us supply and demand and shortage bullshit -

but hey - we bought it - now have to live with it -- this country should have been looking for other alternate means since the 70s so called crisis -- again we were sold a false claim !!!

sad thing it takes a baseball bat to the face or planes into buildings to wake this country up -- by then though damage is done

[Bouncer]

America would be fine if gas went to $10 per gallon. People would adapt. They would ride bikes and take advantage of public transit.

you couldn't be more wrong. many people work to far away for bikes or simply cant ride them because of poor health. as for public transit, the amount of people that would move to public transit would flood and break down the system. our country is built for cars like no other. $10 a gallon would shut down america.

[toolwtf]

This is about how much gas costs in the United Kingdom, thats why they all drive tiny cars or take the trains. America would be fine if gas went to $10 per gallon. People would adapt. They would ride bikes and take advantage of public transit.

[SonofBone]

Babyblues, this article illustrates what you're saying...

Why we're stuck with insane prices - MSN Money

[babyblues]

That, my friends, is what we call propaganda. I'm sorry, but what a bunch of crap. There is no freakin supply and demand problem. Goodness. Gas probably will go that high and we'll be told that it's because of supply and demand. Bullshit. Gas reserves go down 6% and the price of gas goes up 186%?!?! We're being sold a bill of goods, folks. The thing is that if our economy collapsed, so would the world's economies. The entire world isn't dumb enough to let that happen...at least one would hope. In the 70s, there was this "shortage" that made the price of gas shoot through the roof. People were lining up for miles to get gas. Come to find out, gas companies were holding their tankers offshore telling the public there was a shortage and jacking the prices up, then magically making the tankers appear with more gas. It's nothing new. It's a manipulation tactic that has been used many times before and the American public falls for it every time because we're lazy and stupid. People trading oil futures have completely lost their minds! There is no rational reason for trading oil futures at that price. All that has to be done is plant the IDEA that there is a supply and demand problem and we lose all common sense. Just the suggestion that oil will hit $200 a barrel will probably be enough to con us into paying that price out of panic. "Oh my God! We better buy at $200 or we won't get any! Oh my God!" It doesn't even matter if we do anything to reduce our consumption because the price escalation really isn't due to supply and demand in the first place. It just pisses me off that we're being scammed.

[Timma]

If gas gets up to $10 we're gonna have another depression.

[NYCmitch25]

the avg. comute is %20 longer, house size %30 bigger, need a comforatable SUV for the longer commuter - than 20 yrs ago all thanks to cheap fuel

europe pays about $9 now they just bumped up from $4

[hitmansb]

companies need to increase telecommuting for their employees where applicable.

Governments should offer companies some sort of rebate on their corporate taxes as an incentive.

[hitmansb]

Unless avian flu can get a stranglehold and kill off a significant part of the population in places like China and India, it's going to happen eventually. Too many new cars coming onto roads around the world every day.

[SonofBone]

Some serious research for alternatives such as hydrogen & nuclear energy need to become available. Also, companies need to increase telecommuting for their employees where applicable.

[Stonecold54]

gas at $10 a gallon would shut down America.

I think for gas anything above 5 would shut down most things or raise prices to ridiculous levels. the price of gas causes exponetial raises in everything. life as "Suburbanites" will be over....cities will become more close knit. large chain stores will lose buisness as they depend on overseas and large trucking distances to keep supplies up so their competitive edge would be gone. it will revert to more local producers and less urban sprawl...hmmmmm.....isn't that what one group of american's WANT?