[RetiredArmy]

I’m with you. I see it going over $3.25 this summer and it will stay there, then continue to creep up more each year. The more we just pay it, the more it will continue to rise. And, there is not much we can do about it. Even if you cut your driving as much as you can, and we do by combining all our stops into just one trip and not several trips, you still are going to drive a lot of miles.

[Clemenza]

I’m lucky in that I only have to drive four miles to work each way, and three miles for shopping. My six cylinder Sonata gets 22 per gallon in traffic and 30 on the highway, so I’m not as hosed as my coworkers who travel from 30-40 miles away.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I paid 3.25 yesterday. By summer it will be 4.50.

[PapaBear3625]

I’m with you. I see it going over $3.25 this summer and it will stay there, then continue to creep up more each year. The more we just pay it, the more it will continue to rise. And, there is not much we can do about it. Even if you cut your driving as much as you can, and we do by combining all our stops into just one trip and not several trips, you still are going to drive a lot of miles.

There comes a price-point where it's cheaper to use an electric car, and put up with the hassles of battery capacity, than to continue to buy so much high-price gas. And when there's a big market for high-capacity batteries, then it will be profitable to invest a lot of research money in figuring out how to make them better and cheaper

If we greatly expanded construction of nuke plants, and gutted the ways that environmentalists try to halt them, then our oil consumption would start trending down over time.