If gas goes to 5.00 per gallon

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.

Their ridiculous slate of candidates won't unseat him.....
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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

Don,t think that trick will work.

Park the SUVs.

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.

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

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.

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

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

"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???

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.

But I realize that is not so for many folks.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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?

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

on Segways!

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).

Go to it now, Cheetos await!

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.

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.

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?

I'll just be spending more time on my motorcycle

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

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

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.

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?

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