What do you think a good price for gas should be nowadays?

Answer 1

1.50 a gallon

Answer 2

The absolute minimum should be four dollars a gallon. That is in my opinion the threshold at which people will begin to really change their fuel consumption habits significantly. As soon as fuel went over three dollars a gallon, people really started to take a look at how much fuel they were consuming, because it really made a significant dent in their income. As soon as it dropped back to under two-fifty, the uproar was gone. When the ripple effects of higher fuel prices hit automakers, they will finally move toward developing more efficient vehicles, and they will try much harder to embrace alternative fuels. The way things are now, the Big Three, GM, Ford, and Chrysler, have no incentive to manufacture anything but gas guzzlers. In Europe and Asia, where fuel is twice what it costs here, the vehicles are much more efficient because manufacturers there know they could not sell gas guzzlers. And remember that Ford, GM, and Chrysler have divisions in these regions, so it's not like they don't have access to the technology to build fuel-efficient vehicles, they simply don't want to because Americans continue to buy vehicles that consume fuel at twice the rate of many European and Asian vehicles. Why? Because Americans have access to relatively cheap fuel. The way fuel in America is priced now, its cost does not influence the decision to buy it like it does for something like a Ferrari, or caviar, or a Rolex watch. For those kinds of things, if they are too expensive, consumers buy a Chevrolet, a box of Ritz crackers, or a Timex. Petroleum-based fuel has no such economic dynamic. We need it, we can't get by without it, so we buy it. If the price goes up, we might try to find ways to use less. If it goes up significantly, we find more drastic ways to reduce our consumption of it for no other reason but economic survival, because we can't simply stop using it. As it gets more expensive, it makes more and more of an impact on our income, and often times the only way to use less is to buy more efficient cars. If GM or Ford or Chrysler won't build such vehicles, we will buy them from someone who does, like Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc. So, in the long run, the Big Three are faced with a choice: Continue to cram overpriced, overweight, inefficient land yachts into the U.S. market, go bankrupt as a result, and cost thousands of Americans their jobs, which if you read the news enough you will realize that is exactly what they are doing, or supply the marketplace with more efficient vehicles and have a chance to stay in business. Either way, higher fuel prices will benefit the economy, the environment, the manufacturers who are basing their entire companies on cheap fuel, and the longevity of a limited supply of oil. Folks, you can argue all you want about how much oil is in the planet and how long it will last, but the two things you can't argue about are that it is finite and by conserving it we can make it last longer. Pricing it higher will force human behavior changes that will benefit everyone.

Answer 3

Well, when I started driving a tractor, it was around 17-20 cents a gallon. THAT sounds like a good price to me.

Answer 4

I would like to see gas about $250 per gallon. It would be so expensive that we would then have an alternative source of fuel that would be free.

Answer 5

Gas should be about triple the price it is now. We need to start taxing gas more like cigarettes and alcohol, and more like they do in most countries. In Europe, gas is about triple the price it is here, and that causes people to drive more fuel-efficient cars. Taxing gasoline more will also go a long way toward solving our country's fiscal problems at the same time.

Answer 6

1.53 93 or greater octane
1.47 Middle Grade
1.36 87 octane
1.50 Diesel

Answer 7

whatever price is good for you to go work and pay whatever bills you need to... us OLDsters remember 35c/gal , 40c pack cigs, and a new Buick for $2000(1960'S)...But we might have been making only $3000 a year at work. In 1972 I thought $10K was a pretty good income.. IT'S ALL RELATIVE...LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.

Answer 8

Posted by magnum_srt8er

" Western Canada

87 Octane - $0.989/liter approx. $4.26/US Gallon
89 Octane - $1.039/liter approx. $4.47/US Gallon
91 Octane - $1.089/liter approx $ 4.73/US Gallon

Diesel - $0.989/liter appox. $4.26/US Gallon"

You messed up your conversions big time.

US Gallon = 3.78 litres
CAD = $0.86USD

Gas here in Ontario is about 83 cents/litre or about $2.69 USD per US gallon. I wish it was back to levels that it was when I started driving - low 60's per litre.

Answer 9

Western Canada

87 Octane - $0.989/liter approx. $4.26/US Gallon
89 Octane - $1.039/liter approx. $4.47/US Gallon
91 Octane - $1.089/liter approx $ 4.73/US Gallon

Diesel - $0.989/liter appox. $4.26/US Gallon

Jacked up the pump prices just before the Christmas Holidays!

Answer 10

$10.00 to fill tank from empty on all cars and $60.00 for S.U.Vs and trucks. One flat rate not by gallon.

Answer 11

A little over $1.00