So, have you gotten use to the $2.00 -$3.00 per gallon at the pumps!

[Imagevision]

nothing like having 2 oilmen as the President and Vice President.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Sorta getting used to it

Don't like it though. Getting used to it and liking it are two different things.

[Imagevision]

6. Did you notice Detroit screaming about no sales of SUV'S and

gas prices didn't get that boost typical from Memorial day week-end on.
Instead, gas prices have somewhat stabilized regardless of how much we're told oil today is at a record breaking prices, doesn't show at the pumps though. The motor companies tell Bush, allow us to dump the hordes of SUV's we're stuck with then do what you will with gas hikes.

[justinsb]

2. It's not going back

oil men or no, opec has set the new target range at $50 a barrel. Internationally oil is getting more expensive to get as people have to move into more and more remote areas to find it - prices will go way up, but they won't come back down. Time for Hybrids.

[newswolf56]

5. Not 'hybrids' but rational, economical, speedy...

...public transportation, running on rails and powered by electricity. A nationwide version of Northeastern rapid transit. But we all know it will never happen, not as long as (1) the oil barons continue to own both the government and all our DemoPublican political harlots and (2) the American people remain moronically, greedily, egotistically wedded to the privately owned automobile -- the most obscenely expensive, malevolently discriminatory and environmentally ruinous mode of transport on the planet.

[CelticWinter]

3. I quit driving as much

and i will never get use to those prices

[Joacheme Misrahe]

4. This would happen anyway

what makes you think a finite resource price will go down instead of up over time?

[Imagevision]

7. The oil-war in Iraq, however Bush figured it would be a cake walk

once we installed --, I mean once the Iraqi's got their elections the oil flow would somehow be controlled, Chalibi is practically thrown out of the US. but ends up being Iraq's Oil minister? -- that's laughable!

[Skink]

8. My car actually runs better on the cheap stuff.

Who new.:wow:

[splat@14]

9. I predict >$5 per gallon within 10 years.

We are %6 of the world population, and use >%50 of the available fossil fuel. Does anybody really think thats gonna last? That emerging economies will stop and not need oil?

I think $5 is conservative.

[Imagevision]

10. $5.00 per gallon - 10 years? - Europe is @ $5-$7.00 now!

[splat@14]

12. Yep, but we have more political clout. It'll get here

and, like I said, $5 is conservative.

[Imagevision]

13. With Bush & Cheney running the show it will

[Soup Bean]

14. The American economy is ususutainable without cheap oil.

Europe is more compact than America. Suburbia comes at a huge cost, including Wars for Oil.

[BlueIris]

11. In my area, prices have (bizarrely) gone back down to $2.13/gal.

as of today. That's very strange and not a sign of any kind of improvement. Something's up. I don't like it.

[Imagevision]

15. Prices went down here too - even after "oil at record breaking prices"

GM auto sales are off by one billion in it's first quarter as SUV's remain collecting dust on the car lots. GM said they're cutting their work force by 25,000 next year. I believe gas prices are being relaxed until the motor companies dispose of inventory -- then watch the prices at the pump go up even if crude oil is cheaper then it is now.

They're screwing us really well.

[drfunk]

16. In My Country

In my country, I pay AUD$1.20 a litre on average atm. That's around US$4.20 a gallon. You guys have it cheap! i wish i payed that for my petrol!