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Hi everyone. I am curious as to what price does everyone think gas will rise to. All answers are welcome!
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:BangHead: Here in the small community that I live in we are already seeing gas prices over $3.50 per gallon, sad but it just makes me glad that I don't have a vehicle anymore since mine was stolen a few years ago, yes; the way the economy is going I also believe that the gasoline prices will keep rising, just like the price of a pack of cigarettes!
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I think gas prices will keep rising as long as the greedy people at the top use every excuse to make sure it does. The conditions in the Middle East are not the main reason for the price of gas.
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They will keep rising here until the people finally revolt and Obummer allows offshore drilling, and we use clean coal, and the shale, and the natural gas, and read the book--Alcohol can be gas. Look up T Boone Pickens on google and see what he says about natural gas. WE HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF IT. Cars can run on water, but the government stops all of those types of things, because ALL governments are controlled by the GIANT energy companies of the world. NOTHING PERSONAL, CHARLIE, JUST ABOUT A BUCK.
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They will go as high as we are willing to pay. I've cut down my driving and the gas prices are not going down... :thumbsup:
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We need to realize that as long as we are using, the more they are going to charge. We need to stay home a little more and maybe cancel the summer vacation. With hydrid and electric alternatives coming to market every year, we will have more to choose from. The price of alternative fuel vehicles will gradually decline. I plan to buy an all electric verhicle in the near future.
:peace:
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By the end of summer I think gas will be almost $6. Right now its almost $4 and its barely spring. But a lot of vacation areas will feel the punch of high gas. A lot of people will be stuck in their home state.
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It will definitely be over $5.00 by summer. Supply and demand has nothing to do with it, in fact the less people drive the higher the price will go go, since they just raise the prices to get the same profits from less gallons sold.
Electric cars may seem attractive, but I wonder if you really save anything, since you have to buy batteries frequently, and also you are limited to how far you can drive and where, since they have to be recharged all the time. I think hydrogen fuel cells and other technologies would be more practical. What they need to do is invent something to convert existing cars, since most people can't afford to go out and buy a new vehicle.
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6 by the end of the year. But gas prices can go as high as the :bs: oil companies and opec want them to be.
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By the end of summer I think gas will be almost $6. Right now its almost $4 and its barely spring. But a lot of vacation areas will feel the punch of high gas. A lot of people will be stuck in their home state.
A lot of people are stuck at home. I've been hearing from more and more people that are giving up on driving altogether...it's too expensive.
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Hate to break it to you guys, but it's never going to go down. It may zig zag a few cents here and there, but if we don't adopt to another energy source very soon, we're going to be screwed big time in both energy and food consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
Scary scary stuff.
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And now there is a move afoot to tax the hybrids and all electric cars so they will still pay their fair share to keep the roads in good shape. As someone one said "There ain't no free lunch". They are gonna get you one way or the other. :crybaby2: :crybaby2:
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I think it will easily surpass $5.00 a gallon during the summer in most parts of the country. The truth is, while people will complain and threaten to postpone trips, weekend activities, etc, most will forge ahead with their plans.
And for the people who bought big trucks and SUVs in the past three years, I don't want to hear any of them complaining. Gas hit over $4.00 back in 2008. That should have been enough warning that the trend was going to be higher prices going forward and gone were the days of sub-$2.00 gas. If you still went ahead with buying a gas guzzler, you have no one to blame but yourself when it costs $100 to fill your tank each week.
Electric cars may seem attractive, but I wonder if you really save anything, since you have to buy batteries frequently, and also you are limited to how far you can drive and where, since they have to be recharged all the time. I think hydrogen fuel cells and other technologies would be more practical.
You shouldn't have to replace batteries in electric cars often. The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt both have 8 year or 100,000 mile warranties for the batteries. Since I believe many Americans keep cars for about 10 years, this seems like a completely acceptable warranty to me. Also, battery technology is only going to get better. Ford Escape Hybrids used for taxi service have had over 300,000 miles put on many of them with no problems with batteries reported.
I do agree that the infrastructure has a LONG way to go for the majority to adopt pure electric cars. But, for two car households, electric cars can be practical now for use in daily commutes, errands, etc. The Ford Focus Electric, coming out later this year, has a range of 100 miles on a full charge and can go as fast as 84mph, more than enough for regular every day use, as most Americans don't drive 100 or more miles a day for work/errands. Plus, at a rate of $0.10 per kWh, it is supposed to only cost $2.00-3.00 to fully recharge it with a drained battey. If you do the math and have a car right now which averages 25 mpg, and you're paying $4.00 a gallon gas, it's costing you $16.00 to drive 100 miles. So, if you drive 1000 miles a month, $30.00 compared to $160.00 is a big savings.
As far as Hydrogen Fuel Cells, while I hope I'm wrong, I think we're a good 20 years or so away from seeing these types of vehicles mass produced. I think you're going to see more hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric, and even natural gas before I think you see hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
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They will probably hit $4 before Memorial Day. After that, it could go to $5 plus by the end of the summer. Scary be probably realistic. I lived in Europe for a while. It cost me $7 per gallon a few years ago. Funny thing, I do not recall seeing to many SUVs........ ;D
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4.15 in IL. My friend said some stations in CA are at 5$ already.
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Around here they have been barely over $4.00 a gallon. I have heard on the news that we're looking at 4.85 a gallon within the next few weeks. People has to realize when summer time comes around it sky rockets because people travels and we're not using heat in our homes so they have to stick it to us somewhere. I believe it will be over 5 bucks and maybe even hovering 6 bucks. That's sad. The best time around here to get gas is on Wednesday unless it's close to any holiday... doesn't matter cause it always go up around any of them. When completing my .15 cent bonus I always watch the gas prices on here. Never know when I go out of town... just might have to fill up in next town over if it's cheaper.
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Here, in the south, I think $4.00. I hope it does not go further than that, and I truly pray that it begin to come back down.
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I THINK GAS PRICES ARE GONNA GO TOO HIGH SOON.
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Here, in the south, I think $4.00. I hope it does not go further than that, and I truly pray that it begin to come back down.
You can forget about it going back down... I don't see that happening any time soon at all. I sure wish it would, but our government allows it so they are going to do it. They need to start digging more and more. If we didn't use it... they would still sky rocket it just because they can.
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I was watching a local news report tonight, and the reporter showed the price at the station he was reporting from go up as he was standing there. Yes, scary stuff!!
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:angry7: up to about 5 dollars MAN!! sucks :BangHead:
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Yeah, I cant believe how high they are getting.
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I haven't driven in almost 5 years. I rode a scooter for a while when gas got bad around 6 years ago. But I've been unemployed so I had to sell my car. I couldn't pay the insurance and needed money. I think it will be at $5 by the end of this year and get up to around 7-8 dollar by 2015. Paper money is becoming worth less and less. Stock up on that silver and gold guys.
One year ago I bought 2000 worth of gold and silver and now it's worth 5000 total. That's more than double in increase in just over a year with those two precious metals. Soon they will be all that is worth anything. At least put 10 percent of your savings into it. Get some silver 1 ounce bars that you can travel with incase of a war. Get some gold coins. When war comes US currency fails to be worth anything, only precious metals.
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5.00 right now then in a couple of years 10.00 dollars
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Seriously, I don't know. Three days ago gas was 3.99/gallon. Two days ago it was 4.13/gallon. The spikes are ridiculous and I do believe multiple gas stations are gouching consumers. I live in Michigan and if you drive 3 miles you can see 10-15 cent variations in the price / gallon of gas.
Another thing that gets to me is that the price of oil continues to rise...
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I'm sure they will make it to $5 pretty soon. Once they go up they won't go back down
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Its not just gas. Everything that we know of will continue to increase in price. It does vary on a day to day basis, but overall the price for almost everything has been rising over the past few decades. Its called inflation. As the government prints more money the value of each dollar decreases. The more money there is in relation to the population, the less valuable the money becomes. The less valuable to the money becomes, the more money is required to pay for the same service or product. If I was the only person on Earth and I had a billion dollars, each dollar to me wouldn't be worth that much. If I lost 1 dollar I wouldn't notice a difference. But if a billion people each had 1 dollar each dollar would be worth a lot more. Even if I was the only person on Earth, if I had the only dollar in the world that dollar would have some value over other objects that are frequently found but not necessary for my survival. If I lost that 1 dollar, I would notice it missing. Our economy is set up to do nothing but inflate as money can be "printed" (it is usually created electronically.) and can increase the amount of money that is in the economy by a considerable amount. This may temporarily help businesses but would only ultimately lead to inflation. It we continue to inflate the currency expect prices to continue to rise.
I'd like to mention that it seems inflation affects different parts of the market in different ways. It depends on how involved the government is and what products we are discussing. Milk has steady been going up little by little. A gallon of milk today can be compared to a gallon of milk 30 years ago even if the process by which the milk is produced, stored, or preserved changes. However a TV from 30 years ago is not as comparable to a digital high definition 3d tv of today. This is important to understanding price changing, as with milk the price change can be almost completely attributed to inflation. But the TV has too many other factors to be evidence of inflation. That being said the greatest indication of inflation is gold and silver. Gold hasn't changed at all in thousands of years. A gold ring from a hundred years ago is still a gold ring today. Gas is sort of like milk in a sense. The production, storing, and preservation of gas may have changed, but a gallon of gas today was still a gallon of gas 30 years ago. It also appears as though things in which the government heavily regulates have gone up in prices at a higher rate compared to things the government doesn't regulate. Health care, energy, an agriculture have become considerably expensive. Compare this to things that are not as heavily regulated, like video games. Other than giving games ratings, the government does little to actually dictate what games can or cannot be sold and how those games are produced. Yet even with all of the time and energy put into games, the price of a brand new game has actually stayed the same or even deceased some. Even as the time put into creating a video game, the technology used to create it, and the number of people involved in the production of games, and the demand for video games have risen significantly compared to the days of Atari and Sega.
But to answer your question, due to government regulation and inflation the price of gas will stay high and continue to rise significantly.
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I think they should continue rising, and use that money to fix our deficit.
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I was going to say basically everything you said Flackle. Nicely said. Inflation is a tax upon the people that no one outside of Ron Paul ever talks about. If you price things in terms of gold/silver things look a lot differnt, but with dollars, it's only going to go up and get to a point to where your fiat money is worthless, look at zimbabwe if you want to see where we're headed.
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Good news...yesterday I saw that gas prices here in Eureka had gone down to $3.99.Anyway, it's a start.
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I don't think that they will be higher than 5$