OT: Gas Prices, Screwed over and over and over Options

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Put 50 litres (13.2US Gal.) in last night and paid a tad over $65............somehow I think we're getting ripped off out here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Where's the best place to buy gas?????

[TonyAKAVW]

Here's another viewpoint on this...

Right now China and other parts of Asia have rapidly developing economies and their usage of automobiles is increasing dramatically. Their extra demand for oil has been at least partially responsible for the recent increases (last 3-5 years) in cost. Our usage has increased as well. So yes, use less gas to reduce the cost. Unfortunately, that will only work for a while.

If we use less oil, then the price world wide will be lower for everyone, meaning that Chine, et. al, will use more of it faster, meaning that prices will rise. If prices are kept high, the increase in usage may be slowed a bit. Hard to say really. Oil is a finite resource and available mostly in dangerous or uninhabitable places. Increasingly it is costing more to produce. So the price will rise as long as total usage rises.

The real answer here it seems to me is reduce oil use (by increasing efficiency) and at the same time develop alternative methods of generating and storing energy. We have got to get off oil as a primary energy source sooner than later.

-Tony