Reply #6: Gas prices are still artificially low [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

If they truly reflected the cost of maintaining access to oil supplies, along with the ecological costs associated with the use of gasoline, the cost per gallon would be much, much, much lower.

Ideas like this simply will not work. Personally, I think that gas prices will only go up from here on out. I think we're a scant few years away from peak oil, and from there it will become prohibitively expensive. And if we really want to do something worthwhile, we'll start taking measures to radically reduce our consumption over time, while simultaneously pushing for societal changes to adapt better when those rougher times arrive.