Yes, if you talk Survival.
No, if you talk continuing your life as usual.
Thank you, Chuck.
Can America survive federal government at %3 trillion a year? $6 trillion by 2011?
Gas is cheap.
If we start buying less gas then it’ll reduce the tax revenues the government gets, perhaps that’ll get their attention (or they’ll just raise the taxes to compensate).
Yeah, great leadership we’ve got:
Let’s all send our money directly to terrorists, every week.
If we have any left — let’s send that to Communists.
Strengthen the dollar and build more refineries first. Drilling here on our territory is implied but that takes longer.
I saw on CNN someone speculating on $7.00/gallon within a year. They are saying that if there is not huge reduction in gasoline useage, the price will go on a rapid increase upward.
My husband has a Prius that he bought because he likes driving a hybrid (quiet, cool technology, not for global warming).
However, with this gas increase I think I need to start driving it more. I drive our mini-van, and I am spending so much at the pump. I think I need to drive the Prius more on weekends.
I don’t see how we can survive gasoline and home heating oil that goes above $5.00 a gallon.
I just paid $100.00 to fuel my truck and to fuel my gasoline powered lawn care equipment.
The economy is going to take a tremendous hit and its not going to be long in coming.
Yes we can survive. But at $5 I might have to park the 10.5 mpg around town vehicle I drive now and get something more efficient.
Sure, we can survive $5.00 a gallon gas. There was a time when gasoline was rationed. The question is whether we can survive the nostrums of the Democrats, who will only make the price of gasoline higher and its supply scarcer.
Glen Beck had someone on tonite who said that even if we could drill in Anwar, it would take 10-15 years to see the benefit here in America.
Pelosi has this mess all figured out, so she said in 2006. OK Nan, go for it...
I say let’s just go take over a major country in the middle east that’s so full of oil it actually oozes out of the ground.
Ooops, been there .. done that! :(
See ya in the poorhouse!
Leni
Yes
Will life change appreciably?
For some, yes. For others, not so much. It depends on your level of income.
Will economic/lifestyle changes occur?
For many, yes, as they come to the realization that they can no longer frivolously afford to jump in the car and drive to the store for a gallon of milk or a pack of cigs. People will start mentally calculating how much a trip from point a to point b will cost in gas. Unnecessary trips to the store or to play will start being reduced &/or eliminated. Folks will start thinking more about how to accomplish multiple things in one car trip to town or while on their way to and from work.
American’s will survive it.. the hyperwealthy investnment bankers and their servants in congress who are behind the mess very likely will not.