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Heh. During the Gulf War 1 we truckers threatened to national strike the USA if desiel hit 2.00 a gallon. My gas price in Arkansas stands at 2.10 a gallon for premium. We have three older cars and they refuse to run very well on lower octanes. Now everyone is used to paying 2 bucks for gas and maybe a bit more for desiel. I find it interesting that some folks are now bringing in houses that are way too big for cheap use of energy. Is it these same folks who advocated very large basement empires and have problems paying the utility bills these days? My home runs on Natural gas. We try to defend ourselves by "Averaging" the cost across 12 months. We usually consume about 8 CCF a month. But we do have spikes in the winter. (Heat, cooking, hot water) as high as 50 ccf. It does not help that the rates are increasing across the board for everything that we use to consume energy. No way will America give up it's love for large cars and SUV's. We can have gas prices as high as 10 dollars a gallon and they will be able to fill that vehicle up, commuting to work is another problem entirely. I calculate that two people commuting to work 40 miles away will cost about 17 dollars a day on gasoline for two vehicles. That works out to 85 dollars a week or about 340- a month in gasoline. This does not include any other driving such as food shopping, errands, visits and church. When people are being paid minimum wage or a little bit over (call it 8.00/hr) then gasoline for the commute actually becomes too expensive.
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