newsweek.com — Oil prices could hit $200 a barrel in the next few months. How the spike changes everything.This spring, America hit a historic point. With average gas prices per gallon edging toward $4, America's notoriously profligate ways started to change fast. Americans are driving less, using mass transit more, buying fewer gas guzzlers, indeed shopping
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danomagnumJun 2, 2008
Nothing like stinking at work.
ka2errJun 2, 2008
> High gas prices just don't work for most> of the US except for the Urban areas.And gravity does not work for hovering in mid-air. Amazingly gravity does not care.The prices for gas will be high (compared to today), you will have to adapt - better start now.I'm amazed that so many people still try to argue the oil-prices away by talking about rural areas / population density whatever.This will not change the oil prizes. They will rise. Yes, it's difficult, yes, it's difficult for old Europe, too. But that will not be taken into account.
ka2errJun 2, 2008
Not to say that Zeppelins would be a good idea (though I'm German :) but> nobody wants to spend a 48 hours flying from London to New YorkI think considering the means of telecommunication we have today the world could live quite well with taking it 48 hours. In a comfortable vehicle.That would not change much.
ka2errJun 2, 2008
That's an interesting idea - do you have any chart like this?
roodammy44Jun 2, 2008
From the left?I thought elitism was from the right?"Let them eat cake" are the words of a rich right-wing aristocrat who doesn't understand why the peasants are starving.Right wingers today show the same ignorance for the plight of people poorer than them. Like "they hate our freedoms" when what they actually hate is people bombing their children's limbs off.
tsothaJun 3, 2008
Well, I would certainly *love* to take airships instead of flying jets. But there aren't enough people like you and me to pay the development and construction costs unless gas gets a whole lot more expensive.In the 1930s you could buy a destroyer for what an airship would set you back, and I doubt it would be much different today.
tsothaJun 3, 2008
Besides which, there's no reason you *have* to live in a rural area. If you can`t afford to live where you are, then you`ll have to move. That's life.
highandmightyOct 17, 2008
Another prediction proven wrong. Oil is $70 a barrel right now, the market works.