At the current rate of things...it wouldn’t take more than two or three years for people to start considering their other options. For example...the guys who live 80 miles from their job site...might just decide it’d be better to move within twenty miles and cut out that 120 miles of driving per day, thus saving four to five gallons a day ($20).
The companies who regularly send employees to conduct site visits...might just go to teleconferencing. The $6 million they spent each year on airline travel cut down to $1 million.
The RV crowd? They might decide to just park the RV in one location and stop driving the thing...thus saving $5k a year in gas cost.
Dad might decide to skip buying Junior a car at 16...offering him one at 18 instead. Junior might start riding the school bus again which would save the family $1500 a year in gas cost that Junior used.
Europeans might decide that airline costs are too much for their yearly exotic vacations...thus staying closer to home.
The US military just might buy into the blimp development game, and dump its cargo planes for blimp transport...which would save on fuel costs.
Someone might accidentally discover the cost of transporting goods from China to the US...is fairly significant. But transporting from Mexico to the US would be cheaper...so they start building more factories in Mexico, thus cutting more fuel usage.
And somewhere down the road...is the hydrogen vehicle. The odds of one in your local town by 2012...almost zero. But by 2020...there might be a fair population of hydrogen stations thus allowing the population to have more of these cars.
The Saudis lose in the long run. No one will pay $12 a gallon for gas...we’d go bankrupt.
That might have a bit of an effect on some Mexicans choosing to stay in their own country instead of crossing our border illegally.
The Saudis also have much of their money invested in the U.S. It would be the last thing they want to damage the economy!
I work from home and my wife and stepson work about 1,000 feet away at the mall. The grocery store is maybe 2 miles down the street. Thank goodness, because my car is a diesel!
I am so sick of this BS “solution” to the high price of fuel I could just puke.
(1) people live far away from work because the housing costs are usually less than 1/2 that of being close to work. So any F’ing moron who thinks that moving from a $150,000 house to a $400,000 house to save $20/day is a fool. (2) who works at the same job for the rest of their lives these days? Should we move every time we get a new job? Maybe you can move every time ... if you keep the RV and live in the company's parking lot!