What should Americans do when gas hits $8.00 a gallon ?

Question

This price per gallon is just around the corner.

Everything you buy has an oil price component in it.

Two hundred dollars per barrel is not to far away.

What are you going to do ?

Be informed. Be prepared. go to: www.infowars.com

Tell as many as you can about what you learn.

Answer 1

Buy a horse

Answer 2

Cry, pray, then take the train to work.

Answer 3

A major demographic shift will take place. People will move closer to work. Which means the suburbs will empty out and folks will move back into the cities in droves to utilize public transportation and have services like grocery stores all within walking or light rail distance away.

Long gone will be the days of commuting to work in the city from the suburbs 20-50 miles away.

Answer 4

You will learn what it is like to live in much of the world today.  of course our prices will be much higher again.

I cannot understand the American mentality:

1.  You get tax breaks for all those totally reprehensible "SUV" things.

2.  You don't do your homework, and it is pretty simple:

Big vehicle = Big fuel bills  +  Big servicing costs

3.  You fell entitled: "Oh when , oh when will "gas" prices drop the government must do something?!"  

Sorry, the rest of the world has dealt with the issue and continues to do so.  Grow up, America, get a smaller car and pay for your own fuel!  The rest of the world has.

Answer 5

This price per gallon is just around the corner.

Everything you buy has an oil price component in it.

Two hundred dollars per barrel is not to far away.

What are you going to do ?

Be informed. Be prepared

Answer 6

Listen, $8/gallon gas is a problem, and we'll adapt. Its a matter of how quickly one can adapt that will determine how well one will fare when that price rise arrives.

So I looked at the website. Seriously, if the Bilderbergs or another organization are trying to establish control via oil prices, then take action to free yourself of the oil as much as you can. It makes sense to do such anyway - you're saving money, which is great.

Truth is we are all dependent upon oil - not by some sinister global conspiracy or shadow government, but rather because much of the development in culture, lifestyle and economics in the past century has been based upon easy access to cheap oil.

If you want to talk about secret cabals, you do have room here: the U.S. and Britain had much to do with very cheap oil until the mid-1960s. Consider that control over Middle East oil was held by Western powers and companies until the late 1950's when Mohammed Mossadegh, as prime minister of Iran began agitating for nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and set into motion events that culminated with Iran's independence and substantially supported the rise of Arab and Persian nationalism. At the time, the West could have foreseen the problems and adapted away from oil, but we were too busy ramping up against the Warsaw Pact nations during the Cold War to take notice of the Middle East, save for putting missiles and bombers out there.

Today, oil activities are pretty much in the open - and if there is some sort of control by the Bilderburgs or the Illuminati or Freemasons, they're doing a bloody good job of manipulating prices because all the statistical tests we economists run show that oil prices are predicated for the most part on supply and demand factors (although in the past two months it looks like we're entering a commodity bubble, meaning oil could drop precipitously based entirely on market actions).

I'm not an adherent of "peak oil", but I think behaving as though oil is going to hit $200 and gas will hit $8 is not a bad idea. Here's some thoughts:

1) Buy food locally - so local that you grow what you can in your own backyard or indoors. My parents grow between $1,000 and $1,200 in vegetables annually in produce on their 1/4-acre lot in the suburbs. There's a cost savings and an insulation against price rises in the future.

2) Invest in energy efficiency wherever you can. Most households can't afford solar panels - although it is possible that a neighborhood association could put together the funds to generate some power. Any energy savings is good.

3) Consolidate trips, carpool, ride your bike. If you're going to be in a part of town that has several stores, bring a cooler with ice packs and some canvas shopping bags. This way, you can load up your car with food and still run other errands.

4) Decrease trips and increase the time you take for them. At the very least, you can keep to schedule and drive an efficient speed (55 to 65 in most vehicles). At best, you can pick alternative modes of transport to take advantage of prices (ie, last-second plane fares, although these might end, and train travel, which isn't affected by gasoline prices).

5) If you really feel comfortable with it, go ahead and spend a little on gold and silver. I'd honestly say no more than 5% of your income. Like many assets right now in a time of a declining dollar, gold and silver are priced very high, meaning you could lose a lot of your investment once the dollar appreciates - and cyclicallly it is expected to do so. Remember that the dollar is in the trough of a 20-year decline, which was preceeded by a 10-year climb (before that point, the exchange rate was fixed).  Currencies move in long cycles, and 10 years from now, the dollar will be much stronger.

6) If you commute to work, suggest telecommuting wherever possible. Encourage carpooling, etc.

7) Don't let doomsayers predict too many of your actions. It's good to have a pessimism of the mind if you have an optimism of the spirit - otherwise you'll end up depressed, or worse you'll isolate yourself from your community. In times of crisis, the community is necessary - I saw that when I was filling sandbags against the Meramec River until 3 am. If we are really in an end-of-civilization sort of thing, we'll need each other to survive.

Granted, I don't see it as that bad. I know Alex Jones and www.infowars.com do. And honestly, I take issue with a group of people predicting the end of civilization and the beginning of enslavement, who then go on and suggest that students shouldn't learn subjects vital to civilization (history, geography, science, math) but should learn what are essentially self-reliant survival skills. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and so I question the rationale.

I'll close with a quote from John Adams:

I study war and politics in order that my children may study science and mathematics, in order that their children may study art and music.

Don't forget that we are more, as a people, than the resources we consume.

Answer 7

stop driving and walk ride bike start driving a horse and carriage again  roller skate

Answer 8

Walk and protest at banks and the federal reserve banks . As well as any congress or senator office . For they are all responsible For the week dollar .

Answer 9

People will naturally economize in many ways.  Products and services will crop up as the price points begin to make alternatives to driving a very large and heavy device, often by oneself, to a destination easily reached by alternative methods if they were to become available.

Even in cold climates, we can build temperature controlled transportation devices that cost a tiny fraction of the automobile to power.  All you really need to move for most people is 200 to 400 lbs an average of 20 some miles a day.   This can be done for a lot less than what it costs to drive an SUV back and forth from work, school and the grocery store.