[danielmryan]

Some good points, but they're mixed in with praise for you-know-what. Not quite praise for you-know-who, but he's veering there.

Another one for the "had Bush been president" file.

[Sybeck1]

The new Republican house better start the Drill Baby Drill mantra again, ElQuicko......

[VanDeKoik]

Is Yahoo going to help me pay for that $3.50 gas that I’m not supposed to worry about?

[mrmeyer]

Wonder what she’ll say when it hits the $5 -7.50 per gallon mark.

[skeeter]

But for several reasons, rising gas prices in 2011 won't have anywhere near the psychological and actual economic effect they did just a few years ago.

Who you trying to kid? There's only one reason you think we should've been worried then & not now.

[Yet_Again]

Consumption has fallen in part because the much-maligned, SUV-heavy U.S. car fleet is getting more fuel efficient with every passing day....

...and prices are going up because the much maligned, often printed, U.S. Dollar is dropping like a stone with every passing day.

[Joe Boucher]

The more gas prices go up the more the pubbies need to showcase obammy’s shutting down oil, gas, coal.
The more folks understand this is obammy’s fault the more they will come to hate his guts.

[The Great RJ]

The $90+ per barrel price for oil is in large part dictated by the OPEC cartel. Domestic oil produced in the US by US companies isn’t subject to OPEC price fixing as price fixing cartels are illegal in the US under anti-trust laws. Would it make more sense to increase the domestic production of oil, give Americans the jobs and tell OPEC to stick their price rather than curtail domestic production and depend more and more on imported oil and OPEC price fixing?

[Gnomad]

It’s already $3.43 here in Alaska, more like $8 in the bush. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the courts just pulled Shell’s permits so no exploration again for now. Liberalism is a suicide pact where the bombers strap failed science to themselves and blow us up in the courthouse.

[Logical me]

If and when gas hits $4 a gallon the top will fly off America. Millions will riot. Remember most of the gasoline used in America is for commerce and people getting to and from work. Most people are hurting with this over $3 a gallon stuff now. And they can shove this electric car up their collective as@es. Electric bills will skyrocket trying to charge these junk machines and most homes electric circuits will not support the power required.

Side note - power company here is install new transformers. I wonder why and who is paying for it. And they already hit me with the new meter.

[dirtboy]

Consumption has fallen in part because the much-maligned, SUV-heavy U.S. car fleet is getting more fuel efficient with every passing day....

It's also fallen because millions of people currently aren't driving to work every day. And $3.50/gallon gas makes it less likely they will resume driving to work.

[TruthConquers]

A gallon of gas cost only 23 cents, in 1955.

Here is a fun animation of the housing crash mixed in with a very quick history of money, including WHY the cost of gas has NOTHING to do with the gas itself.

It is pretty funny. Bit of Back to the Future, Twilight Zone, and ends with a nod to 300, only 29 minutes long.

The American Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2oCXbW4r0&feature=player_embedded

[backwoods-engineer]

Don’t Sweat $3.50 Per Gallon Gas

No, don't sweat it! It's the new normal! In fact, it's going to go much, much higher than that!

I want my country back. I want oil drilling in every state that has the black gold underneath the ground.

[RichInOC]

Rich to Daniel Gross: FYVM. Kthxbai.

[shortstop]

Anybody catch the flawed logic in the article: "There's also evidence that Americans' long-running love affair with the road is beginning to wane a bit. Driving is less fun when you're always stuck in traffic."

He's saying people don't drive anymore because they don't like getting stuck in all that traffic. Like Yogi Berra once said, "People don't go there any more. It's too crowded."

[OB1kNOb]

Don’t Sweat $3.50 Per Gallon Gas

I agree but from a different opinion. It will look cheap as we look back in a few years when prices could well be north of $4-$5 a gallon.