Will these gas prices ever end?

Question

will these high gas prices ever end? im 17 and i cant even find a job and i cant afford gas. when are these prices going to end? i cant take it anymore...its making me depressed and believe it or not gain weight! because i have to sit at home all the time and the only thing i have to do at home is sit on the computer and eat and watch tv...is this ever going to end?

Answer 1

sooner or later it will end,but not any time soon,there going up here every day also,maybe when we get an new president the prices will fall some,who knows though,for now,its going to remain the same for a while,good luck.

Answer 2

Not anytime soon. The demand for oil is high. The demand goes up every year with more and more people driving cars and filling their tanks. Take a look a China. In 2003 the demand for oil went up 30%.  The demand goes up. It never goes down.  

Oil companies have little if anything to do with the price of oil. The price of oil is determined by the market.

Oil is traded on the GLOBAL market based on supply vs demand.  We have to find a way to do without oil.

Answer 3

Stop B***ing about it, drop some weight and get a job.

Asking people on YA all day isn't going to help you.

Answer 4

Ride a bike. You don't need to stay home because of the gas. Take a bus.

Answer 5

hope they raise it to $ 7.00 a gallon nationwide.

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as for your weight control, thats sound personnal, do not blame us for your lack of will to excersize..

Answer 6

I'm 17 too. And the gas prices where I live (in Detroit, MI) are RIDICULOUS! The Diesel price was $4.59 and my mom wouldn't pay me like she usually does for gas so I had to use $14 of my own money to get only 3 and a half gallons. It was crazy.

The car in front of me paid $110 for gas. They say that it's going to be $4.00 a gallon for regular by the time summer hits.

Answer 7

Yes it will end. When people stop using cars and trucks as a source of transportation. People existed for thousands of years without cars. So get over it and get on with your life.

Answer 8

That is the bargining chip for politicians.  Is not going down any time soon.  In Europe, a lot of people pay up to $8 for a gallon of gas.  So what !  Here still way less.  What we need is a better mass transit infrastructure that will give us a flexibility to commute and choose our cars when we really need it.  Think about it, in Germany or even Japan, to own a car is more than a luxury.  Gas is way out there, parking is horrendous, insurances is really off the wall and buying a car is expensive as heck.  That is why they hang more to their vehicles.

Anyway, I would love to have a better train system that competes with the Airlines. That will give us good choices for long trips.   Even a bus system.  In Minnesota, they have the park and ride.  You park your car on the outskirts of the Twin Cities and catch a shuttle bus that takes you downtown.  Once there, you can walk via a Sky Walk so you are not out in the cold, leaping from building to building.  The shuttle goes in the car pool lane.  Is much faster than actually driving your car plus parking it can be $20 or more a day.

For now, car pooling is the way to go... you know the saying Grass, Azz or Gas, nobody rides for free... :-)

Answer 9

I saw on the news tonight that some candidates were proposing to have like a "gas tax" free holiday over the summer.  Although gas tax is only 18 cents I believe.  And some hotels are actually giving out gas cards if you stay with them.  Gas prices in the future will vary depending on what candidates get chosen.  I understand with the rising cost and the rate of job loss, that gas money is hard to come by, but it is a necessity, and it does not matter how expensive gas gets, the need for it will never decrease.