Ok friends answer me this one .What in the heck are people going to do that commute to work that are just barely getting by with the gas prices shooting up ?

What did they do about 10-12 years ago when it was $4 a gallon?

Struggling, Rags, they're struggling.

4 bucks? Talk is way over that IF things go bad. Folks are going to have to go OLD SCHOOL...share rides, bike, walk etc
Just my take....

What's going to happen? Exactly what those currently in power are trying to make happen.

Just paid $4.10 for premium thanks Joe.

$4.57 for regular here. Gone up$1.50 in two weeks.

Our diesel is up to $ 4.99, none of the ranchers around here can afford fertilizer this year

It is a real hardship on a lot of town people and ag people

I think maybe some more car pooling and over night stays at friends and family for those that drive a lot everyday. Also vehicles that get better gas mileage. A couple years back the wife and I made a lot of changes so that we could see each other more and not be zombies. Never did child care. We took shifts with the kids between our two jobs. It sucked and there was no quality of life and we never saw each other or slept. Got it figured out where she could quit her job. Best decision we ever made. Anywsy, one off our cuts/changes was me getting rid of my truck. I miss it for a lot of things but not for its gas bill. That alone has saved us tons of money and for the foreseeable future will continue to pay off as a good decision.

Likely get very bad, of course I'n weeks an months to come, everything well be affected by it, people well go broke on gas an buy stuff stores , if even get it, I predict bankrupt country, ppl broke all over , places go out bussiness, shutdowns , places that help poor ppl well be out bussiness, closed up , has prices really suck I'm cold weather use lot more, figgure out how much u pay in few months more, add to inflation, hundreds more in 2 months

Double digit inflation maybe only a month away. Remember that word, “transitory,” ? None of the experts are saying that word now.

Dbl digit inflation a disaster, people start go broke, bankrupt

Get out of debt as fast as you can.

This should be a huge factor this year for the midterm elections. Need to clear house on everyone not just those up for reelection
Roy

Every thing I have is paid for.I got to have a 4 wheel drive truck.

I'm sure we could all get rid of our trucks, car pool, or just stay home, but some of us want to live, not just survive. My God, how could a once great country get run into the ground so fast.

Honda really hadn't put much a dent in the American car market until Jimmy Carter's gas issues with the Iranian deal. All of a sudden, people started checking out those old school Honda Civics that got 30+ miles a gallon. I suspect that if $4-5 gallon gas comes and stays for a while, high mph vehicles will be in vogue again and fewer pickups and big suv's tooling around. The problem is that we've already sort of burned that "quick fix" because we devalued the USD so much that a 30+ mph car won't gain people on the edge where fuel is a noticeable amount of their take home pay. If gas would go to $6-8 a gallon and stay there, then I think all bets are off for things staying together, some places becoming a lot more volatile than other lotions.

The greedy development goofs here want to put 300 apartment units across the "highway" (only about 50 mph) from our subdivision on the edge of bedroom town. Our subdivision are larger sized lots, about 2-3 houses per acre than what is typically found in "big city" nearby but the land across the road is not zoned single-family residence and the cropland they're converting went straight to "commercial/ multi-family". So, they're going to double the population out here by only adding a fifth of the current developed land. 300+ more cars coming onto the 2-lane "highway" from 2 driveways. Besides just the greater coin for the developers, what I think the city council/county leaders are angling for is to have Uncle Sugar pay some of the eventual widening of the highway to 4-lanes. I can see a deal being cut where reps of Uncle Sugar agree as long as half of those apartment units are used to house Prez Sniffy's line jumpers they flying all over the country. Lots of business leaders in "big city" would love to have more cheap immigrant labor. Swell...

Well, when you have people in "power", some by "election" and some just controlling coin ("business" leaders, various bureaucracies), actually try to wreck things, more or less, it really doesn't take much time. Grind away on a low but steady tempo for a generation or two, and then do various quick gains in destruction with specific event "eras". Mostly the turning up the frog pot a little at a time and then a quick turn or so when the frog doesn't have the strength to jump out of the kettle anymore...

Hey if they want to work, treat them well.

Agreed......throw a bug bomb in the White House and start all over. Both parties. Oh, and the meaningless third party too.