How high will gas prices go before the people join together in protest?? My guess would be in a few years it will be over 8 bucks and then all he** will break loose. From the 1980%26#039;s all the way to 2003 it was only 25$ a barrel!! In early 2007 it was around 60$ dollars then rose to 92$ later that year! Now it has reached a record high at 117$ a barrel at 3.50$, as of today! Alaska%26#039;s oil is running low, Canada%26#039;s oil is running low, and militant groups are attacking crude oil pipelines. Bush talks about needing to get off of oil dependance, but nothing has been done, just crappy hybrids and the death of the electric car. Will there be something similar to the Vietnam Anti-War protest if this gets worse? It%26#039;s virtually impossible to satisfy a growing population dependant on oil. Will it be a Mad Max postapocolyptic future?


- p.s. I didnt make the numbers up

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4 months ago

Yeah it%26#039;s sad, we will always be slaves to oil, as long as the government controls the oil, they control us.

4 months ago

I would like to just put the blame on Bush, because that would mean gas prices and the war would end when they left office, but that%26#039;s not gonna happen, there will be a new president, probably Mccain because presidents are usually x-military , and gas prices will still increase,the value of the dollar like Ron Paul said will decline, the war will still go on and Americas military will still %26quot;police the world%26quot;.

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Maybe it is time for us to protest the companies who continue to suppress the technologies that we could use to power things without the need for fossil fuels. The fuel cell, for example,which takes the %26quot;h%26quot;(hydrogen) out of h2o (Water), is used to help[ power the Space Shuttle. Why not vehicles? The Shuttle has been around for 20 odd years. So has this technology. Answer: Petrol/oil = money. Money buys patents for alternative power sources. Alternate power sources suppressed. Sad but true. 29% 2 Votes

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• If the reason for gas prices going so high is lack of supply, then why are the oil companies being investigated for record high profits? Should there not be a cap on the profits these companies are allowed to earn? Why is this being tolerated? I often wonder...how do the little people like ourselves get heard? How do we go about protesting? All I know is I can%26#039;t wait for Dick and Bush to be out of the White House. 0% 0 Votes
• It is still WE THE PEOPLE right ? Gas will go as high as they want it 2 go , until we step in and do something. If enough people speak their minds get the wrong people out of office and the higher ups , things might change, remember we as a people vote , and these people that supposedly make choices and decisions for us , work for us. Get our soldiers out of that hell overseas, those people have been fighting for thousands of years, BUY AMERICAN whenever you can. 0% 0 Votes
• As in all commodities the price will go as high as the market will stand. Economy 101 .. as the price rises the demand will decrease. As the price rises competition for a new fuel source will find a new fuel source. As the new fuel source becomes economical the old fuel source will drop in price or become obsolete. 14% 1 Vote
• Dick and Bush are oil men but there is more to it than that. Sure they are looking the other way but they are not totally to blame. Gerald Ford warned us back in the 1970s about what was to come. Every president and every Congress since then has ignored his advice. 0% 0 Votes
• true. it really is ridiculous how high the prices are going. and thats the only reason we are still in Iraq right now. for the oil. 14% 1 Vote
• There%26#039;s supposedly new oil found off the coast of Brazil. If they can tap into that reserve maybe prices might go down. 0% 0 Votes
• There is an electric car. Check out Tesla Motors. In a couple of years, they%26#039;ll be commonplace. 0% 0 Votes
• We need to bomb more people. 14% 1 Vote