Are you Ready for $20 Per Gallon Gas?

Nobody gives a *** about gas prices unless they're at 4 dollars. That's when you should've released your crappy book which by the way nobody read because it was so terrible. Unfortunately once the price dips back down from 4 dollars, like right now, people go back to not giving a *** and people will continue to not read your book, like they wouldn't have even if gas was at 20 dollars a gallon because by then we'll have different energy. I have an idea for your next book: it can be about how the earth is going to run out of oil and we should all panic and commit suicide. For the low price of 20 dollars a gallon, one can simply use it to douse themselves and then use a simple match found at most local restaurants to set themselves ablaze. As a bonus to the hippie haters it'll be one last screw you to mother earth as the smoke from your charred corpse pollutes the air.

There's plenty of oil; just a sore lack of political will to fight off the "futuristic" progressives who want us to ride our bikes to our collectives.
The feigned argument that contends that oil prices are a direct reflection of supply and demand is flawed in every sense....including common. The trading value of the dollar; short selling, speculative profiteering, refining capacity; shipping costs; cartel collusion....all factors that run their course freely because we won't simply devote ourselves to pumping more of our own oil. No, that would be environmentally unfriendly and only put off the inevitable . Yes, we must "look forward to a greener future..." -- the Trekkies have grown up and are running things now. Yikes.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! I thought it was proven during the oil crisis in the mid 1970's that we'd all be riding bikes and reading by candlelight because the oil was suppose to run out within a decade or less. What ever happened to that alarmist pseudo-science? Hmm...perhaps it's the same scientists who knew absolutely, unequivocally back then that the world was soon to plunge into the Next Great Ice Age. Ooops! Got the negative sign backwards there. Okay, the world is heating up, yeah that's right. We know absolutely for sure this time. And not only that but man is causing it somehow. No, this isn't a hoax this time that a bunch of half wits and those with hidden agendas are trying to use to their own ends, no, no we're SINCERE this time. What we need is a new leader, a leader with VISION.
A new leader with a short, unproven political record but an eloquent, confident speaker who is feverishly worshiped by millions as the new savior. He wants to start his own para-military civilian force with as much power and arms as the regular army. He already has a fiercely loyal youth brigade of those who believe they've been disenfranchised. He wants to mandate highly fuel efficient cars for the good of the economy and environment, a "peoples car" if you will, which he can demand from one of the auto companies he's seized as Commander in Chief He's taken office in a time when the economy is collapsing and to fix it he's instituting policies that will lead to wildly out of control inflation on top of a severe depression. He believes he can be the first to institute socialist policies that succeed where others have failed and much of the success relies on the part of his plan to introduce presently hidden elements of his own agenda.
This great, wonderful leader? Of course the literate who bothered to study history and man's compulsion to repeat the same terrible mistakes throughout will know this is not just the Great Barack Obama but the Great Adolph Hitler. I wonder whether in a few decades from now young kids in the new up and rising Great Nation will drive the new People's Car (spelled Volkswagen in German) and think vague platitude filled thoughts about the collapse of the once great nation these cars came from, the nation that brought about its own demise under a dangerously narcissistic grandiose leader who was wildly worshiped by millions of angry, troubled masses who were desperately searching for scapegoats for their largely self created troubles?

Vigilance are you one of those people paid by Acorn to make paid responces in favor of the liberal agenda to keep people believing in a puppet for wallstreet and the illuminatti.

Wow, I don't even know why this is even an issue. I don't know about everyone else but the next car I buy, isn't even going to run on gasoline anyway. Oil is OLD NEWS and the oil companies need to realize that and move out of the way. With new alternative energy sources becoming more and more efficient, cheaper, and easier to come by, oil prices are inevitably going to plummet as there will be no use for it anymore. It will be worth absolutely nothing. Heck, we don't even need it to make plastics anymore as there are alternatives for that as well. Oil will soon be over, end of story. And gasoline will NEVER get up to $20 per gallon as oil prices are dictated by supply and demand and if demand is becoming less and less, supply is becoming more and more. Get off oil already, our drilling it is destroying natural habitats and making rich, RICH men out of evil people who could care less.

Look, we have one sure fire weapon to combat gas prices, and that's being smarter with the way we consume our gas. If we could take steps like driving the speed limit, turning the engine off when idling at crossings, and properly inflating our tires, we would save a ton of gas over time, not to mention money. Check out www.drivesmarterchallenge.org to see what I'm talking about. Plus, they have a nice coupon for saving dough on your next motor oil purchase!

Sameer Ranade
Energy Hog/Communications Intern
Alliance to Save Energy

I miss the groups that sit together on a mountain on the day that the earth is to end. Gasoline at 20 dollars a gallon just doesn't do it for me.

I don't fully agree with the author as his assumptions aren't really based on any empirical data. Retrofitting cities to be "more like New York" would be so financially burdensome that it would break most municipalities??? backs. New York isn't the watermark for mass transit as its development occurred is a significantly different way from what many of you consider the "fly over states". This author seems to embrace such excessive prices as he believes that will motivate the citizenry through aversion. He fails, as does most ecologists, to realize that such tactics rarely succeed due to mankind's innate unwillingness to bow to other's ideals for the sake of their own inconvenience.

Cap and trade is a specter and will do more to damage the economy than it will to "balance" the ecological impact you profess is occurring. First, do you seriously believe that industry will not pass along the taxation to the end user thereby increasing inflation on goods? Second, who decides what the balance is? The statics being thrown around as of late are pure hyperbole and until a reason set of metrics and forecast models are developed under healthy scientific scrutiny from all sides, then any "zero out" cannot be justified or measured. So, we don't have this structure but you would put the government in charge of making these calls? The EPA is ineffective now let alone without the additional burden of cap and trade fantasies. How about a non-profit or industry-run association? Would probably be more efficient, but their results would always be under scrutiny.

The answer is quite simple, stop trying to find ways to beat the public into your point of view and start finding ways to reward transitory behavior. A Smart car means nothing to a construction worker or a mother of three, start applying your miracle technology to real vehicles. Port your "solutions" into the existing culture rather than trying to force everyone to adapt to the technology. Then you'll begin to see real change.

This is all a liberal pipe dream....forcing us all back in to the cities. The solution to this is very simple and is coming.
We small town, country, and surburban dwellers will have one electric call to get around locally and then one
long range diesel to go further, using the electric mostly and the diesel when we need to leave town. You
will never, ever force us back to the cities and the hell holes they have become.