$5 to $6 dollar a gallon gas possible in 18 months, what are you going to do about it?
Brazil has had ethanol, and acholol at every gas station pump in the last 30 years. The politicans knew that, but didn't allow it to happen here, if you are thinking why not, just think of how many people working in Government make money in the oil business. If that makes you as mad as it does me, answer the question and really mean it. I have a few suggestions, write letters to the Editor of your local newspaper, don't buy as much gas, or just don't fill your gas tank. Car pool to work, use your bike when you can, walk if you don't or when you can. We need to send the politicans a message, and it isn't go ahead and allow big business oil men to keep raising the price....this is a war on the middle class, and if you are one of those you should be mad as hell and thinking like me. Believe me it's all up to us, they can't make any money if we don't buy it. Let me read your best answer, and what you are planing to do about it. Some of your comments are saying that it won't go above $3.50 a gallon. I know some people from Norway, and they pay $6.00 a gallon right now. So don't think it can't happen here, because if they are paying $6.00 in Norway, and $4.50 to $5.00 in other countries, what makes you think it won't, or can't happen here? I think it can, and if we (American People) let it, continue to drive without thinking first, it will, because greed doesn't have any limits.
Government - 21 Answers
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no way our great pres.won't this happen will he
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Ride my bicycle more. No more pedicures I guess.
3 :
Really...what can we do about it?
4 :
buy a horse.
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I'll dress up as Peter Pan and shoot the gas companies with my bow and arrow. No, I'll ride a bike. I'm only 15, so I don't care too much yet. But I know I will. And then, I'll buy a diesel VW Jetta. 50 to the gallon, baby!
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well....not much we can do about it. it's either pay or don't go to work for me. eventually we'll just get to the point where we'll taking out a second mortgage just so we have enough money to pay for gas
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I ride a Bike every where that I go, even tho I have a car. -TY
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Continue to not drive.
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Think I'll buy a cart and drive my horse to town .
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what can we do? we arent like brazil or france who have been using alternative fuels for years now, usa is the most technologically advanced country in the world and we cant get that? that is a whole different problem all together, i am gonna do the only thing i can do, suck it up, pay whatever it is, and work to earn more money so it doesnt hurt me as much.
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Well i guess im planning on getting a bike.
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Here in Ontario, Canada we are paying $1.06 per litre - five litres are in one U. S gallon. In other provinces they are paying over $2.00 a litre.
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Stop the aids to Israel and force the OPEC to return the favor by lessening the price of oil.
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i'm gonna jump for joy when it goes that high the price will FORCE america to finally seek alternatives there is no reason to burn fuels for transportation humans should be smarter than that by now i hope it happens gradually though, or there will be chaos
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ditch my car
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like everyone else get a bike , bike as in motorcycle , like hell im gonna petal my ass to work. shoot can u imagine me on bicycle on the the 405 or the 101 freeway
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I drive 32 miles to work/school, so it hits me pretty hard. Lately I've been getting by on fumes and worrying if I'm going to make it at all.. Plus I've had to get a second job. It's already killing me. Possibly with all this extra money I'm thinking about getting a more fuel-efficient car. BP has been talking about putting ethanol into their gasoline so hopefully that will come into effect before long. Otherwise I guess we're all screwed unless people begin standing up for themselves like they're supposed to. I personally avoid buying gasoline as much as possible. When I move closer to work/school I'll probably do a lot more walking as well and maybe write a few angst-filled but justified letters to my local congressman. If everyone wrote a letter once a week to their congressman, it would probably drive them to do SOMETHING. I don't understand why people blindly follow authority. People don't seem to realize that there are more of US than there are THEM. We can take 'em. We have guns too, you know.
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Sorry man my best guess is if gas really goes that high and I don't get a pay raise then I will have to start selling my body or organs. Something that drastic because the prices right now are keeping me home a lot more and really hurting my bank account. I'm not trying to sound like a freak but my life would get so bad that I would have to give up my car and most likely my job because I have no car and if the government is going to let things stay so bad then I'll join in on the other pilferers and go on welfare.
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I know that this answer isn't completely possible for everyone because I live in a small town, but people in cities could carpool more often and so on. Mainly this is for small town folk I guess. If gas reaches 5 to 6 dollars a gallon I am going to walk everywhere because I am not going to let anybody tell me or regulate how I spend my money. I already put less gas in my tank than I would like to already (20 dollars a week to be exact). Although I would prefer to fill my tank 3 dollars 15 cents I believe is what it is here. That is far too much, I really think that if we could get a very high majority of people of the lower and middle class to have one or two days that they don't go to work or at least don't drive their vehicles maybe just maybe we could send a message in one way or another to these Oil Companies, that we aren't going to put up with it anymore. Now by lower and middle class I pretty much mean that we are the ones that are really hurting from this. I really don't believe that writing our congressman/woman is going to work because they aren't feeling the pinch quite as bad as us common folk if you will are, Oil companies have thousands upon thousands of lobbyists that are specifically paid to get our elected officials in there pockets so to speak, but I believe that I could be veering in a different direction so that is all.
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I am going to drive less and at least avoid Citco.
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Take it from me my fellow Americans. Gas prices will never go beyond $3.50 on the average...at least for a long time. The giant oil companies and Bush's administration already settled on that. They figured that this price is set for good to make lots of profits for the oil companies to invest their money (at our expenses of course) to explore and dig out more oil from Iraq and Libya and some parts of Saudi Arabia. Did you know that our American and other British oil companies are now in Libya after new contracts had been struck with the so-called Qaddafi - the terrorist. Qaddafi of Libya is off the terrorist List now since he allowed Bush to explore his oil....nobody talks about that anymore....of course. Keep in mind also that Saudi Arabia and other Arabic oil producing countries are making lots of profits to pay their debt to the USA and reconstructing the New Iraq......all of that at the expenses of all the poor working people on this earth, especially the middle class of America. It is all a political game....wake up America please for your kids sake. By the way, I never said that the Iraqi war was about the oil (partially Yes!). However, it was a golden opportunity for Bush and the oil companies to benefit from that.
