Yes, alot of countries in Europe and Asia already do pay well over $6.00 a gallon. Its a sad , sad world there....

Maybe try this: If any oil fails to get out of the Strait of Hormuz as a result of geo-political instability for more than about a week..
That'll start the spiral. Don't think 6 bucks - think 12 bucks. Think profiteering. Think "gas jackings". Think people dying of thirst on the road - stranded and fuel-less. Think people shootin' people cuz promised fuel doesn't arrive. Think stock market-berserko. And the price of jet fuel? Astro-freakin'-nomical. You could experience $6.00 regular this fall even without major disruption. Global reserves are there but it'd be like giving a opiate-junkie one Tylenol 3. Drop in the bucket.
Even with global production maxed-out and running smoothly and new sources coming on line I don't see any natural resource becoming significantly cheaper or even holding a steady price for any meaningful length of time in this century.
It'll take some serious "techno-magic" and societal behaviour changes to just feed ourselves this centiry - let alone support the current iteration of the "auto-culture".
The whole deal'll need a refit both conceptually and logistically in the scope of something like "The Manhattan Project" or perhaps even an "Alternative1/2/3" style project to allow any sort of "order-of-magnitude" leap forward. We're too far along to have incremental improvements make enough of a difference. On our current "vehicle" the "ashtray" is almost full - 'time to buy a new one.

Victor K

Originally posted by derfyxxx


I can help you ship diesel VW, the are left hand, and here in Belgium where I live we have excellent automobile prices.


Only 1 countrey is allmost completely independent, and that is Brazil, we should felicit them, and it is at their advantage.

when you say left hand. do you mean you drive on the left or the steering wheel is on the left side?

brazil may not import oil but they are using a poor source for their ethanol.

I will tell you my conspiracy about oil,

Oil is profitable, but the countries that have it are not the very reliable, while produces of oil control the prices of exporting the oil the Oil barons in the US control the refining of that oil.

The conspiracy is very clear US is a very technological advance country ( Asia following behind) alternative fuel would have been already developed and we should be independent from the oil producing countries.

But why we are not?

Is very simple the only reason our country is still one of the few countries that pay less on gas is because keeping the gas low ensure that will not be enough complain to force alternative oil technology.

How much will you be willing to pay as a consumer for gas?

3.00, 4.00,.5.00 or 6.00 dollars?

What sum will be too much for everyday Joe’s pocket?

Oil barons will push their gas prices on and off to see how far will the consumer in the US will go before screaming for alternative oil and force the politicians in our country to do something about it, while braking record profits every year.

Why Saudi and other countries that sell oil to the US are more than willing to do what the US said when it comes to oil prices?

Because if the don’t they know pretty well that an alternative will come over night and their power over the crude will go back under the sands where it belongs.

Actually a gas station only makes part of its operating costs from inside sales. If for example, a gallon of gas goes for about 3.05 per gallon, the station only makes about 4 cents on the gallon. Where the station makes money on gas is in volume. Not just insides sales. And I think I know a bit, as I do manager a convience station that sells gas, and insides sales only cover part of the costs.

FOr school had had to do a large paper and I did it on ethanol. I think that if we just had ethanol to all of your gas we put in your cars we can buy some more time to find a way to take care of your oil problem.
Ethanol is made from matter like corn and ford has made may cars that can take E85 with uses 85% ethanol and 15% gas. Not all car can take this kind but all cars can take E10 with is 10% ethanol and 90% gas.
It may not sound like much but it can reduse your gas prices in a great way.
Until we have more places that put ethanol in there gas we will have a higher and higher price until people get wise or until we run out.
You are probley right that is about 5 years the gas price will be $6.00.
And if this does happen I do not know what my family is going to do becuase it is almost $50.00 now for us to fill up our car.

The loss in mileage and performance outweighs the gains from even a 10% blend. Save a few pennies at the pump, but have to fill up again sooner.

For ethanol to work well in IC motors, the motor must be properly tuned to ONLY run ethanol. Otherwise, avoid it like the plague.

All i know is that the price of gas here in south phoenix(chandler,gilbert,mesa area) is like $3.15. I saw on the news a bit ago the gas price is .85 from the previous year and that its gone up 20 cents in the past month. Bit scary

i say that gas is going to hit 6.00$ a gallon in about 1 year..
gas now in michigan is about 3.25$ a gallon and with all this war in the middle east
there going to keep raising the prices and we sell out oil for less then them i dont see why we dont use our own..?

Originally posted by xmguyx23

i say that gas is going to hit 6.00$ a gallon in about 1 year..
gas now in michigan is about 3.25$ a gallon and with all this war in the middle east
there going to keep raising the prices and we sell out oil for less then them i dont see why we dont use our own..?

Thumbing through some older posts to see what predictions were around for gas prices and I found this one under Peak Oil.

Thankfully we are not at the $6.00 a gallon yet as of April 2008 but normally gas prices start shooting up in the middle of May but yet this year it started at the beginning of April, from $2.95 average to $3.35-$3.56 per gallon. I'm going to estimate that we hit 4 bucks before Memorial Day 2008 this year. I'm hoping not, I'm hoping our Elected Officials will do something about this, however with the election close at hand and GW not able to run again, I bet prices will continue to fly high to help those poor oil companies feed their families.

a petrol station in devon u.k has put its price up to £1.99 a litre or just over £9 a gallon or $18 ! it is official the world has gone mad!