The Blue Board

at 6 or higher its not going to be pretty for lots of folks - cant imagine

if not a word it would become one if the price gets that high

What will happen is what always happens. Gas sales have already declined and the price has started dropping at least in California. The price will slowly drop back below $4 but above the $3.75 it was when this started.

We will all say "whoopee" and go back to driving like always. Then in a year it will all happen again. It's like an annual corporate bonus for the oils companies.

I hate to get political, but certain wars have been responsible for many of the jumps in the price of a barrel of oil.

Indeed some have, but recent bumps as rolltiderol said above come from nothing but pure greed. To my knowledge anyways

EXACTLY. They know people will indefinitely continue to pay around the 4 dollar range. I think eventually their greed will overcome them and they'll keep pushing up the national average and it will all come crashing down along with our economy. Which really wouldn't be that bad. I would trade 10 years of extreme hardtimes if i knew that it would have a chance to be better for a little bit on the other side.

I get around the same in my Z71. I will be joining the miltary and will choose just to stay on base a lot and not use personal gas guzzlers so that will limit my expenditures for oil.

Posted by a man with a corporate gas card.

Thank goodness I'm in school and only drive about 100 miles a month. I have to be out of state for summer school though and I'll be driving around 300 or so miles every two weeks.

Pray tell expand.

Are you a tree hugger who hopes we won't use more carbon fuels or just a dick?

Wait that's the same thing.

Not at all. I hate trees. Do the math.

($7/gal - $3.50/gal) x 20k miles per year / 25 mpg = $2,800 extra per year extra to laugh at all of you whine. I think I can handle that. I spend much more on things far less entertaining.

I ride my bike everyday unless it is absolutely pouring rain. Between gym/work/school I ride anywhere from 10-50 miles per day. I work in a corporate setting where I have to wear slacks and a tie, my co-workers get kick out of seeing me walk into my office everyday in spandex. Since the first of the year I've spent a total of about $40 on gas and made about $400 in paid mileage from work.

I started doing it not necessarily because of rising gas prices, but just to see if I could do it. The logistics of carrying everything in a single backpack and having to change multiple times has been a challenge, but it has been easier overall than I thought.

That is exactly what the big oil companies don't want us to realize. We can save major gas if we just get up and do something like you did. +1