i smell 4 bucks per gallon..., top off your tanks now. Options

[lotus_65]

prudhoe bay shutdown

... another great excuse to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) the consumers...

[PRS914-6]

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this but I think we as Americans have had it easy for a long time. The rest of the world has been paying double what we have for years. There is a very easy way to get gas prices to drop. Stop driving big SUV's and gas guzzling cars. If we all did, there would be such a glut of gas, the prices would drop like a rock (for the entire world economy)

When I drive down a California freeway and every other vehicle is an extended cab pickup or a Ford Expedition, I do not have pity for us. We chose to live this way and I won't blame the oil companies for making money. It's simply supply and demand and profit. Personally, I don't want to pay either, but $4-$5.00 a gallon would solve the problem. People would finally start driving economical cars, gas usage would drop, fuel inventories would go up and prices would fall.

Take a trip to Europe, 90% drive small economical cars and lot's of motorcycles. Here, eonomical is a small SUV and a full dress Harley Davidson.

The solution is ours, we just don't want to give up the luxury...........We never will until we are forced to........

[cooltimes]

I don't think it matters what we drive based on fuel prices in the historical past of Europeans who traditionally have always driven smaller and more economically pruden cars. Strange as it seems, most cars where price of fuel is extremely high to begin with are the ones that are very economical and the government has tacked on high taxes to overcome the lack of taxable fuel burned. Go Figure.
It's just a matter of who controls the oil per barrel market and we all are seeing exactly who that is without going into the politics we dunk our heads into the sand about in this particular arena of car buffs. Not a place to discuss until the damage is done and well entrenched seems silly since this is also a part of owning a 914.
If anyone thinks this post is political, speak up. I will delete the post.

MikeCool

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this but I think we as Americans have had it easy for a long time. The rest of the world has been paying double what we have for years. There is a very easy way to get gas prices to drop. Stop driving big SUV's and gas guzzling cars. If we all did, there would be such a glut of gas, the prices would drop like a rock (for the entire world economy)

When I drive down a California freeway and every other vehicle is an extended cab pickup or a Ford Expedition, I do not have pity for us. We chose to live this way and I won't blame the oil companies for making money. It's simply supply and demand and profit. Personally, I don't want to pay either, but $4-$5.00 a gallon would solve the problem. People would finally start driving economical cars, gas usage would drop, fuel inventories would go up and prices would fall.

Take a trip to Europe, 90% drive small economical cars and lot's of motorcycles. Here, eonomical is a small SUV and a full dress Harley Davidson.

The solution is ours, we just don't want to give up the luxury...........We never will until we are forced to........