Soaring Gas Price--What's Your Limit?

[ProfD]

What is the most you're willing to pay for a gallon of gas?

 

Just curious to know at what point the family here would park the ride & use another form of transportation. 

 

It's amusing the same USA that 1) seized control of Venezuelan oil & 2) attacked Iran would pass higher gas prices to the same American people who are complaining about the price of groceries & healthcare.

 

I doubt the price will hit $5 per gallon. However, jacking the price up by @ least $1 in less than a month doesn't show much concern for the economy & struggling people either.

[admin]

Oh my friend in some part of the country like California gas lives above $5 a gallon.  I paid over $7 once.

Still in the rest of the country it is not uncommon to see $5+ for premium gas.  Diesel gas is already well over $5 in many places. which will translate into a lot of things being more expensive.

 

I will pay whatever it costs man, but I will just do a lot less driving.  I don't drive everyday as it is I feel for people who have to commute by car.

 

What is really jack is the removal of tax incentive for EVs and charging infrastructure. 

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, admin said:

Still in the rest of the country it is not uncommon to see $5+ for premium gas.  Diesel gas is already well over $5 in many places. which will translate into a lot of things being more expensive.

Right.  I was referring to the national average gas price hitting $5 per gallon.  It hasn't gotten there...yet.

 

1 hour ago, admin said:

What is really jack is the removal of tax incentive for EVs and charging infrastructure. 

Despite a friend of the current administration being heavily involved in EV technology, it appears the effort to ramp up EV infrastructure has stalled in favor of continuing to enrich the oil & gas industry. 

 

The current administration even rolled back an EV mandate drawn up by the previous administration. So much for EVs becoming standard by 2045(?).

 

Of course, there is still time to make EVs even more commonplace in the future depending on who's running the government & the lobbyists behind them.

 

In the meantime, the current administration will continue to enrich the oil & gas industry long before EVs gain any more traction (no pun intended).

[admin]

EVs are the future... The current administration only has 2y 9mo 22d 2h 30m 27s left -- a mere blink of an eye, and things will improve on a global scale. 

 

On 3/24/2026 at 12:23 PM, ProfD said:

I was referring to the national average gas price hitting $5 per gallon.

 

My smart speaks says the nation average for the cheap stuff $3.98 for the cheap stuff and $4.87 for the premium; stuff which I have to buy as a driver of a Volkswagen I have to buy, so it is close to $5 now.

 

Here in Florida gas tends to be cheaper than the national average.  When I went to the pump a few days ago I paid $3.89 for premium. If it cost twice that I would still fill u I would just drive ALOT less maybe ride my bike more and get my kid to drive me around she and her boo both drive Teslas.

[Pioneer1]

On 3/23/2026 at 9:05 PM, ProfD said:

Just curious to know at what point the family here would park the ride & use another form of transportation. 

 

Not everyone has that option.

Unlike those who live in the DMV, New York, Atlanta, or Chicago....most of America lives without DECENT public transportation to get to and from work and other places.
Most need a car for a semblance of convenience unless they want to leave home 2 hours early and walk all the way to where they're going....lol.

And by "decent" I mean safe and reliable....lol.

Every major city in Michigan has some sort of public transit system, but if you take public transit in Detroit or Flint....you're taking a HUGE risk, lol.
 

[ProfD]

29 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Not everyone has that option.

Unlike those who live in the DMV, New York, Atlanta, or Chicago....most of America lives without DECENT public transportation to get to and from work and other places.
Most need a car for a semblance of convenience unless they want to leave home 2 hours early and walk all the way to where they're going....lol.

And by "decent" I mean safe and reliable....lol.

Every major city in Michigan has some sort of public transit system, but if you take public transit in Detroit or Flint....you're taking a HUGE risk, lol.
 

OK.  If the price of gas becomes higher than a giraffe's snatchbox, folks with decent transportation might still have to carpool and/or find some other way of getting back & forth to work.

[Pioneer1]

I think many if not most people will start trying to invent or develop ALTERNATE forms of fuel for their vehicles.

Anything from liquor to rubbing alcohol.
Or modify their cars TO support such alternative fuel.

[ProfD]

20 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

I think many if not most people will start trying to invent or develop ALTERNATE forms of fuel for their vehicles.

Anything from liquor to rubbing alcohol.
Or modify their cars TO support such alternative fuel.

Invention doesn't really work that way. 

 

Broke azz people aren't going to start burning compost or mixing a bunch of chemicals together in search of alternative fuels. 

 

The most desperate folks might sell their cars & buy a scooter or a bike.  Something that runs on a cheaper fuel source.  Similar to some Europeans.

 

The coolest thing is if more Americans started riding bikes the obesity problem would go away.

[Pioneer1]

4 hours ago, ProfD said:

 

The coolest thing is if more Americans started riding bikes the obesity problem would go away.

That is about as likely as the rising cost of cigarettes making smokers reconsider their habit, quit, and live healthier life styles...lol.