Anyone else besides me want to see higher gas prices?

Question

Its the only way people will ever slow down on their gas use. However, I think prices will have to go up to 8 or 9 dollars before that happens.

Answer 1

Yeah... Um no. Higher gas prices really wont change anything quickly. The infrastructure in the U.S. is set up for cars not for mass transit.

Raising prices only means hurting people who support our economy to go to work. Yes, people should do what they can to be more enviro friendly, but people have to afford to go to work as well.

Answer 2

Higher gasoline prices are (or should be) every environmentalist's dream.

High prices do the following:

1. make people buy vehicles with better fuel economy;

2. make people reduce mileage driven, thus reducing CO2 emissions;

3. encourage people to investigate alternative energy sources;

4. make alternative energy sources economically competitive without expensive federal and state tax subsidies;

5. make cities reconsider, and hopefully improve, their inadequate mass transit systems;

6. maybe it will also give people a reason to consider using those systems. In Arizona, we have buses that seem to be a driver and 50 empty seats.

When gasoline is cheap, people think gasoline is a gift instead of a valuable and wasting resource.

The European nations have been smart enough to tax fuel at high levels for years, with the result that fuel costs $6 a gallon and up.

Answer 3

I don't want to see higher gas prices like that, as that hurts American families and businesses, and would really hurt our overall economy, causing job losses and further pain.

But you are right. We Americans won't stop buying those gas guzzling SUVs and trucks until its just too expensive to drive them. Their sales are being hurt somewhat right now, but I think it will take $5 per gallon to really force people into more fuel efficient vehicles.

I'm amazed by just how many people in my condo complex that drive large SUVs like a Ford Expedition, or those giant pick up trucks, yet do not have any kids or never haul anything around. In our 35 units, I think there is only 1 family that is large enough to actually need an SUV.

Answer 4

The time has come for what?? greater beauracracy to regulate petrochem policies, that merely united statesour taxes? you're precise - conservation won't shop %. with call for. And clinging to petroleum gas is like status atop a sinking deliver and screaming simply by fact one's ft are transforming into moist. there is basically a brilliant number of it, that is getting greater high priced to pump out of the floor, the countries that are producing it may value despite the fact that they elect. And neither the Pres nor the Congress can do a single ruttin' ingredient approximately Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Mexico or Russia. not one ingredient. what is going to turn it for the U. S. is a elementary substitute in what we draw close our capability hats on. not something much less. yet of direction, that's not likely to take place every time quickly the two simply by fact there's a extensive quantity of infrastructure geared up around autos and gas and organic gas. it would require gutting the business equipment and putting in something very different. in spite of the undeniable fact that, squawking to our representatives won't help. it will all give way sometime, and while we ought to alter then the substitute will take place.

Answer 5

It's a tough call. On one hand, higher gas prices would hurt the economy and make it tougher to create alternatives. On the other hand, as long as gas stays cheap, we have no motivation to develop alternative energy sources and different ways of using land.

We could eat our cake and have it too if our government created some actual leadership in this area. Unfortunately, denial is more expedient in the short term, and certainly keeps them on better terms with the people making all the money in the current paradigm, not coincidentally the most monied lobbiest and campaign contributors.

Answer 6

no not only do i like using my own car. but a drastic rise in energy prices would drive up the cost of all products. as it takes fuel to make and deliver them and the resulting inflation would derail the economy and throw many people out of work and into poverty. the right way to control oil use is to get less costly alternatives on the market that offer the same reliability and ease of use. then the people will change their usage willingly.

Answer 7

It's going that way but they will stop raising price when people start driving less. There is a balance that they maintain through trial and error. When they notice the peak going down they drop price til peak goes back up. And then they try again. So I already drive a lot less but it's not noticeable because not everybody is doing it.

Answer 8

Higher gas prices will make people realize how important gasoline is to our society.

An increase in gasoline price will definitely spur growth in alternative energy sources. Allow us to find ways to be independent of nations that currently seem to have extensive internal conflicts.

Possible development of more mass transit.

I think higher gas prices definitely has its benefits.

Answer 9

In a way I do. I would like to see the federal government to finally realize that Public Transportation is lacking. In Europe, you don't need a car because the trains and buses there are excellent.

Answer 10

In some aspects, I think that it would be great. it would definitely eliminate the grandpa/grandma trips on Sundays, where they get on an interstate in the left lane with their left turn signals on traveling at 50 mph in a 65 zone. There would be a bunch more motorcycles on the road as well, with less cars to have to avoid.