Oil may surge to $220 amidst Mid-East unrest

[urbanlibertarian]

When gas prices rise diesel does, too.  JTA's costs go up and their revenue stays flat or falls.  Then they have to start reducing bus service to stay within budget and there are fewer buses to accommodate more riders.  So "I'll just park my car and ride the bus." may not be a viable option.

[duvaldude08]

It is what it is. As of last week I have been riding the bus (my license got suspended for a moment), and it is not that bad. Even when I reinstatement my license in month, I may still continue to ride the bus and just use may car to run errands and drive on the weekends.

[Timkin]

May be a increase in Bicycle sales coming up  they are very fuel-efficient.

[peestandingup]

Gas being ten dollars a gallon would be awesome. Keep rising to the Top! Im already prepared for this. Bring on high gas prices.

You may be prepared, but the country simply isn't setup to handle gas prices like this. It was basically the jumping off point to the 2008 near-collapse. If it goes higher than that, and with us in the state we're in, it's not gonna be pleasant for anyone.

But I do agree that one should def prepare yourselves as much as possible, just in case. After 2008, I've had a bike & a highly efficient scooter (gets 90+ mpg, goes up to 70 mph) in my arsenal. Of course, it wont shield me from it with food prices & everything else, but AT LEAST I'll still be mobile if need be. Which is probably more than I can say for the vast majority of people out there.

Sadly, I do think that it's gonna have to come to this before we get our collective asses in gear & say "no more!". We started in the 70s, but after things stabilized, we sorta forgot about it, which was a huge mistake.

Someone around that era, I forget his name, said that Americans have two diffetent modes when it comes to this: Complacency & Panic. There is no in between.

I've really found that to be true. We never act unless it's a disaster.

[Garden guy]

People complain about the price of gas yet the feel nothing of paying 50 per gallon for wine or liquor or coffee...Hell how much would a gallon of Star Bucks coffee be?....I see the best thing that could happen for our nation and world is for gas to go sky high and maybe we'd all figure out that that nasty stuff is bad for us all and should be left where it is..under the ground....yet the facts say that there is enough solar energy coming from our sun to run anything we need...if we only spend some cash on development...hell if we just spent what is spent on lobbyist in washington on research the problem could probably get solved...