If gas goes to 5.00 per gallon

[libtodeath]

Will you give up Internet to save money?
I posted this in another thread but am curious.
I just cant help but wonder if it is part of a plan to break up the national and global wide connection of occupy.

[CAPHAVOC]

1. Might be more than 5.

If we get into war in the Mid-East. I ride my bike. Not drive my car. And row my boat. And grow my garden. And switch to drugs.

[Rene]

20. I've been wondering what else the R's would do to defeat Obama

Their ridiculous slate of candidates won't unseat him.....
but
Would forcing high inflation by election time......like happened to Jimmy Carter.....cause political setback for O

I think these climbing gas prices are being intentionally done so there will be a politically unstable scene by November. high gas costs will = inflation

[CAPHAVOC]

28. On the other hand....Romney?

Don,t think that trick will work.

[Iggo]

2. People will do the same thing they did last time.

Park the SUVs.

[libtodeath]

4. I only have one vehicle

so that is what I have to drive,it is a small 4wd pickup that I need for the bad winters here and to get firewood in.
It will be 10-20 dollars a week out of my pocket so will be looking to save somewhere.

[Iggo]

11. Except for you, I guess.

[jberryhill]

3. How long do you think cheap gasoline is going to last?

Perhaps you should take a look at what the rest of the world has been paying for gasoline for a very long time now.

[libtodeath]

5. True

but a lot of those places have public transportation so lots of people dont have cars or the miles to travel back and forth to work.

[jberryhill]

6. Like BART?

The wholly fascist and intolerable BART, whose operation is a threat to global freedom and liberty?

[Bluenorthwest]

17. In Germany, more than 60% of the cost of gasoline is in taxes....

So that is a major factor. UK, also you pay more in taxes than you pay for the product itself.

[ohnoimscared]

27. interesting...

[Zalatix]

35. It's not just gasoline that's going up... it's "peak everything".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002307920

[greytdemocrat]

7. Huh?

"I just cant help but wonder if it is part of a plan to break up the national and global wide connection of occupy."

You're kidding right??? Gas going up is to stop Occupy???

[libtodeath]

13. I didnt word it right

not to stop it but would occupy have taken off across the country the way it did without the internet and places like DU spreading the word and events.
That was my thought although maybe a bad one.

[aikoaiko]

8. Nope. Fortunately, gasoline is still a small % of my monthly bills.

But I realize that is not so for many folks.

[RebelOne]

41. Yes, fortunately, for me too.

I have been retired for 2 years now, and only use my car to go shopping. I never go far from home because I have shopping malls and supermarkets all within a 5-mile radius. Usually, I only have to fill up my gas tank about every month and a half.

[flobee1]

9. I might look a little goofy

But I am planning on riding the moped on my 14 mile commute to work. Laugh all you want, but at 120 mpg, I could care less.

[Robb]

10. Given the real problems expensive fuel causes, you think it's to break up Occupy?

[kctim]

12. No I won't

Besides, gas is about money, not breaking up a few thousand people.

[marmar]

14. .....watch the economy slip back into a coma.

nt

[rurallib]

21. The oil companies ability to manipulate gas prices with impunity

is the secret weapon of the Repubs.
Jack up the price, cripple the economy and make Obama look weak when there is little he can do.

[CAPHAVOC]

29. Obama says it is a sign of a great economic recovery. I kid you not.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. It's around $8 a gallon at present exchange rates in most of Europe.

Higher fuel prices are an inevitability given that there is a limited supply of oil, given that oil production has been flat since 2005, and given that demand continues increasing, mostly due to growing demand from China and India. Oil is at around $120 a barrel (Brent crude: $118; Alaska North Slope, $120; Louisiana Light Sweet crude, $122; West African Bonny Light crude, $120). You can ignore the reports on the news that oil is at $100 a barrel; it isn't. That's West Texas Intermediate, which accounts for c. 300k bbl/day of the US's 5.5M bbl/day production; the reason it's trading much cheaper than any other grade of crude oil in the world is because there's an oversupply at the depot in Cushing, Oklahoma, with limited pipeline facilities to move it out. It's not only not a global benchmark, it's not even a useful benchmark for the US oil market. And the last time oil was trading at this level the average US price per gallon of gasoline was around $3.50; any economic recovery is perforce going to increase demand and thus oil prices (as we saw in 2008, when crude oil peaked at $147 a barrel). This is the result of peak oil, of constraints on supply and of demand being greater than available supply. It's not part of any plan at all.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. And in most of Europe, more than half that price is taxes.....

In Germany it is more than 60% in taxes. Without the taxes, the price of the product is $3.20 a gallon. So it is not a fact that the market price of gasoline in Europe is more than twice what it is here, the fact is the taxes are much, much higher. Why not compare prices to prices and taxes on those prices to taxes on those prices?

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. Without taxes it's about $3.20 a gallon in the US, as well.

Current price per gallon in the Atlanta area, around $3.50; Georgia fuel taxes, 31.9 cents per gallon.

[WI_DEM]

16. No, I'll just walk or take the bus more than I even do now (which is at least 3 days per week)

[Bruce Wayne]

18. If gas hits $5 a gallon, the Chinese will invade us...

on Segways!

[Sherman A1]

19. No, I would not give up the internet

I would use it more, in order to provide information, connections, entertainment & shopping options as I spent more time at home. I would cut back, but that would be in areas of traveling (which would be hard, as I don't use the car for much beyond the commute now).

[obliviously]

23. Your basement

Go to it now, Cheetos await!

[Javaman]

25. No it's not about the occupy movement...

it's about suppressing a population that was engineered to be addicted to fossil fuels so a very small group of ultra wealthy people could make unbelievable amounts of money off the stupid.

we have entered into an era where demand is out stripping supply.

As a result, the ultra-wealthy are trying to make as much buck as possible before it's impossible to maintain supply for demand.

Welcome to the new reality. It's just like the old reality, only it sucks a lot more.

[cleanhippie]

26. If (when) it goes to $5, that will be the first step in the road to getting us off the oil...

It will be painful, people will have to make adjustments to their lives, and many will simply flail about and complain, but in the end, it will be for the best.

[sarcasmo]

30. I would give up my car before I gave up the Internet.

[Beacool]

31. Nope.

I was about to respond "as long as I have a job", but even if I didn't have a job I would keep the internet. How else would I look for another position?

[FarCenter]

32. The cable TV goes before the internet access

[guitar man]

33. no

I'll just be spending more time on my motorcycle

[Warren DeMontague]

34. oil is a finite resource.

sooner people realize that, the better. This idea that we're somehow entitled to an endless cheap supply of it is delusional.

[oldhippie]

36. No.

[Fumesucker]

37. Just the opposite...

Cut back on driving and get even better at hypermiling while doing everything possible online rather than driving.

[TBF]

38. Raising gas prices may be used to get at Obama

during an election year (what else can they do - their candidates are crap) but why in the world would it have anything to do with Occupy? Occupy draws from all age groups but I have to believe the majority are young - and if they are college students they probably bike/ride busses/walk more than drive anyway.

[pampango]

39. Of course gas is going to $5 a gallon. It will happen. The only questions are 'When' and 'How do we

prepare for that day'.

I don't know if $5 gas is coming this year, next year, etc. but it (and much worse prices) is coming. The policy question is "Do focus our efforts on keeping gas as cheap as possible for as long as possible then when the inevitable more expensive gas finally comes, hope against hope that we can scramble and deal with its effects?" Or do we accept/promote a faster rise in gas prices in a way that funds alternative energy/mass transportation so that we are preparing for the day of really expensive/hard-to-get gas?

[snooper2]

40. LOL

Yep, it's all part of the PTB's conspiracy to make you corporate drones