[RonHolzwarth]

Gimme a break.

If the price of gas gets high enough, more people will do what the natives of Kansas and Colorado have done for YEARS!

Pay some guy to do a minor modification on your engine, and put a propane tank in the back. As of 1993, it cost about $1,000 to have that done, and that price included a beautiful matching job for the propane tank in the pickup bed. The tank could also fit inside a car trunk, if need be.

There is plenty of natural gas in the United States, enough to last for hundreds of years.

True, the engine did have reduced horsepower, BUT it also was extremely inexpensive to operate!

AND it is also possible that coal gasification or bio generation of fuels will become cost effective with the next few decades.

Look back, how important was crude oil in the year 1904? (answer: not very)

So, unless there is a sudden halt to new scientific discoveries, there will be something new in the future.

I certainly do remember reading, in 1972, how the world was going to COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF OIL in only twenty five years or so!

But, the year 1997 passed, and the gas stations still had gas to sell, somehow.

[RightWhale]

Sure, all that is true, but that's not the point. Oil has been cheaper than dirt for a long time, and natural gas even cheaper. That will change. Everything will be more expensive, and then we will have to conserve. Hope we all enjoyed the heck out of these easy oil days.

[steve8714]

The supply of Natgas is being depleted to generate electricity for Cali.