What are the future predictions of the gasoline problem? Are we going to have to stop driving our trucks, or is gas going to cost 25 or 50 dollars a gallon? ARe there any options to convert a gasoline triton into a different type of fuel burning engine? I hate the thought of not being able to drive my truck in the future. I am thinking of selling it in the next 2 years if we are going to run out of gas, or if it costs much much worse than it already is.

 

There is plenty of gas out there for years and years, there shortage stories are a crook of Removed All the oil companies are making record profits, so that just show you, that we are getting ripped big time.

 

$2.59 for regular here in DC. It's gonna be a looooooooong Summer

 

It is damn near that here to, they are talking 3.00+ Plus this summer.

 

Projections and guestimates are saying >$5.00 w/in a couple years.

Ryan

 

If you all remember back in the mucsle car days, I beleive the late 60's. There was that HUGE gas shortage. People were only allowed to buy XX amount of gallons a week. I think gas was near $1.50 back then during that time. We got out of that pretty well didnt we?

Personlly, I'm not worried at all. I'll bet all I got that we will all be driving gasoline cars for the rest of our lives and probably our kids lives too. We got at least another hundred or so years before we realy have a threat of NO more oil .

President bush wants to drill in Alaska where this is a TON of oil there, but the tree huggers are opposed to that. IF we could drill there and supply our own oil, gas prices would be cut in half. Its just a matter of finding oil for better prices and capping what the oil companies can charge for the barrels.

Heck, they made a RECORD first quarter profit, form any company ever known to exist. Yet we are still being charged $2.50 a gallon. Make any sense??

I bet in a year or two it will eventually drop back down. It will probably never be down to the $1.20 or so it was 10 years ago, but times change, people earn more, and prices go up. Even at $2.50 you only paying an extra $10-$15 a tank than you were 5-10 years ago. Not really that big of a deal when you think about it.

The only thing I see changing in the near future is more diesel powered vehicles, which get better mpg, and supposedly emit lower emissions. I actually love diesels so that doesnt bother me.

So, enjoy your truck, drive it, burn that gas, and don't worry about it, because it ain't gonna happen in this life time!!!

 

10 years ago.....
Gas was $1.00 3 years ago, I might of only been for a week, but then it went up to 1.09, what happend to 1.09?
Wasn't there something suposed to happen in 2009 w/ a agreement between the US and Aran w/ cheaper oil prices?
Also, didn't Pres. Bush get a few acres in Alaska to drill?
Those would help alot, and then I'd be able to drive like I want.

 

Since I have a habit of fueling controversy....I read recently (wish I could remember exactly where) that oil may not be a "fossil" fuel. This theory is that the oil is actually a common resource (like water) and that the biological content that is being portrayed as coming from dinosaurs is actually coming from bacteria in the soil. If this theory proves to be true, then we've all been duped and screwed for years. Of course, if it is true, can you imagine all of the groups on each side (oil companies and tree huggers) that would work very hard to keep this information from becoming public knowledge? That would put a halt to price gouging and also to "alternative fuel" development. How much money in government grants would be lost if alternative fuels were suddenly not needed? There would be alot of ticked off proffessors and grad students when there research grant was cancelled.

 

bronco351, I believe you are a decade off. Gasoline was 29 cents a gallon in the late 60's.

There are a lot of major oil-producing projects that will coming to fruition over the next 3 years. I'm betting that the real price (w/o taxes) of gasoline will start down by the end of next year.

 

Its true. Gasoline is not going to run out ANY time soon..... there is sooooooooo much of it, that we dont even need to worry.


Guys, its ALL about money, they say its getting shorter so they can raise the price of oil and make record profits. See, what i dont know is what the goverment is going to do in the 25 years in the future when we STILL have plenty of oil.



The main concern with MPG is emmsions, and to help convince people we really need to conserve. Its not harm to conserve, but it isnt nessesery becuase by the time we really loose all the worlds oil, we'll most likley have another engine of a some sort.


I bet they already know oil isnt a fossil fuel, they have jus kept it under wraps for the entire time. Wouldnt decaing plantlife and etc.... make methane?
Im not sciencetist, but i really dont think oil is a fossil fuel.


The tree huggers are doing us good, though not for the reason they think...

What if we "all of a sudden" STOPED buying oil from the middle east, what do you thin will happen. U.S. will be terrorist CITY. They will also hit (or try to) our refinerys, no refinerys, no gasoline.

Think about it, why havent they bombed our refinerys???? Cuase its THERE oil that fuels them....and we pay them big time.

 

Terrorist bomb their own oil drills and refinerys, just because they can.
Man $2.50+ a gallon is stupid!

 

i'm not going to hold my breath waiting for any alternative fuels. if there was an alternative to what we're doing now and it cost less than 3$/gallon, then we'd be doing it.

my best guess is gas is going to keep going up. china is developing so they're using more oil every year. they're 4x the population of the USA, so if they used just 1/4 of the average american's consumption, they'd still be consuming as much oil as the united states.

alaska is just a pipe dream. there's oil up there but not nearly anything to take a bite out of global demand which is waht you have to do to reduce the price.

some oil projects could get moving and bring more oil online, but the long term is there's not going to be enough oil to satisfy an ever-growing economy. even if you do produce more oil, it's just delaying the inevitable and delaying the necessary investment into another source of energy.

 

what about that other sorce of energy? Were going to have to use gas for a while.

We need to find somthing thats cheap, and can be made in large quantitys ....so large it can take oils spot. I really dont think we can do it, im pretty much sure where going to still us gas

As for the price, its just going to get to a piont were everyone can just get by, and once that piont is breached...well, no one can afford oil ....but this is only if oil really isnt renewable...if it is, itll most likley not get much higher then it is now.

 

I don't have a crystal ball, but I can spot a trend when i see one. Last year, gas bottomed around here at $1.78/gallon, and peaked around $2.86 (at my favorite cheapy station). This year, gas bottomed at $1.93. High side is????? I'm guessing $3.00ish.

Buy energy stocks if you can.

 

I personally just cant see gas going up much more than it is now. Some states in the US have caps on what the gas can be sold for. I live in AZ and we are one of the few states that doesnt have any caps, which i why last summer we were paying $3.25 for 87 octane!!!(only for aout 2 weeks though) Thats all thanks to out women governor.

I also remember about 2 years ago when here in AZ, some how mysterioulsy the pipe that runs through the state delivering the gas ruptured TWICE in a couple months, stopping gas flow and driving the price through the roof, causing stations to even run out of gas!! I still beleive the governor had a hand in this and was being paid something under the table, but hey thats just my opinion.

I still think once all the crap overseas calms down, so will the oil prices.

Also, I know that Alaska cant supply enough to feed the whole world or even make a sizeable dent in it. But hopefully we can supply that oil to ourselfs to help off-set the oil coming from the middle east.

I guess only time will tell.