How high do you think gas prices will actually go in the United States?

Question

How much will gas have to cost before it truly effects your day to day tasks? What are you doing now to conserve? Have you picked a "cut off point" (a point where you would stop driving and use alternate methods of transportation)?

Answer 1

Probably  double what is now in the next few years because that is what it will take before most people will actually change their life style  enough to actually cut demand.  On average we spend about 5% of our income on gas and for people with low incomes it is more, but most people are only paying extra 1 or 2 percent which is not enough to cause a real life style change.  I only use about 15 gal most months so the high price is more of an annoyance than a problem and I have not changed anything, but I might use   trains more for medium length trips instead of driving at these or higher prices.

Answer 2

If gas gets to the point where it is 5 dollars a gallon i will quit working a draw unemploiment. And live off the goverment

Answer 3

UP & UP, until our gd congress gets their fingers out of their as*.

I can only think that they are waiting for Obama to occupy the whitehouse, and maybe, just maybe, do something so he gets credit, and nothing is credited  to Bush.

And they don't give a d**n in the meantime.

My AC is on 80.  No less than 75.

Only one light as needed.

Less driving.

No long trips.

Answer 4

The globalization movement, per Strobe Talbott of the Brookings Institute, has two main pillars to create what he calls "global governance" (a one world government).  The first is of course free trade, which is the only way to break down national sovereignties.  

The second is environmentalism based on the theory of man made global warming.

That said, in order to mobilize people behind the "green movement", there will have to be a continuous increase in oil prices, caused by "speculators" (manipulators).

I would think the pain will get severe at about $6 to $7 per gallon; a level that billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens (another globalization supporter) predicts.  

There is a philosophy driving world events.

Answer 5

till we go through another stock market economy destroying crash

Answer 6

In europe they were paying 4 dollars per gallon 20 years ago.  In some parts of Europe they are paying 10 bucks per gallon and getting along fine.  I dont really care too much about prices at the pump, but i do care about air travel costs.  It will cost my family like an extra 1500 or so to fly if we want to fly international now.  Thats quite a big hit to flying.

Answer 7

from the looks of things, gas is still too cheap.

most people are still only at the complain level of dissatisfaction.

they still will not stop wasting fuel.

so, in my opinion, gas needs to be at about $9 to $10 per galon so that people will really change their fuel usage habits.

but it is working now. i see about 20% less traffic where i live during times when people seem to be out on the road only becuase its cheap to do so.

Answer 8

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