What will gas prices be by 2009?

[SeanDub 10+ year member]

I see the price of oil eventually coming back down when its bubble bursts. When, how low and for how long who knows.

The bubble won't burst until we find a way to eliminate oil as the fuel for transportation. At which point it will no longer matter.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

That's delusional. With India and China forcing ever increasing demand, it ain't gonna happen.

True, but that doesn't mean speculators don't over react and artificially drive up prices only to freak out and withdraw at a later date, look at the housing market, look at past oil booms.

Not saying we will ever see cheap gas again, but it may not be to the extent some people speculate.

The bubble won't burst until we find a way to eliminate oil as the fuel for transportation. At which point it will no longer matter.

Yup, alternative energy sources will help pop the bubble, but only if people get onboard, including other large consumption nations. Unfortunately I don't see that happening anytime soon //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[DDeitz 10+ year member]

china will never be the most powerful country because we have the most powerful military by FAR, and that will never change.

rome was by far the most powerful as well..wait let me come to think of it...more country's then i can count have been the most powerful by FAR..but lets be fair and only count recent times.

Nazi Germany was stronger then america

Russia was very close

England\france were for many years the strongest nations in the world.

lets also not forget America has a long history of not doing the brightest things when it comes to war.

 

[bad_trip 10+ year member]

so when is someone going to start putting 150+ db systems in tiny little electric cars and things? that's where we are headed.

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

It'll continue going up well in to '09 and maybe a bit beyond. Once more hybrids, highly fuel efficient gas and diesel, and eventually fully electric vehicles hit the market en mass, fuel prices should hopefully start declining due to lower demand. Probably half a decade until that happens, at least.

/speculation

 

[NewAgeKing 5,000+ posts]

lets also not forget America has a long history of not doing the brightest things when it comes to war.

Lol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

It'll continue going up well in to '09 and maybe a bit beyond. Once more hybrids, highly fuel efficient gas and diesel, and eventually fully electric vehicles hit the market en mass, fuel prices should hopefully start declining due to lower demand. Probably half a decade until that happens, at least.
/speculation

Hopefully other nations jump all over that and we can continue to be an oil sloth nation...at cheaper prices.

Problem solved!

 

[skateboardkid 10+ year member]

poll should have started at 4.00 and gone up to 7.00 you think its gonna come down?

I already got a Vino, gonna set something up on it, might be able to do a 6.5 component set in fiberglass pods with small 2 channel amp running off mp3 player.

 

[NewAgeKing 5,000+ posts]

 

[skateboardkid 10+ year member]

shouldn't these new electical cars have several hundred amp alts stock!! Maybe even 96 volt systems, imagine the power output of the amps of the future........

 

[montx 10+ year member]

I don't worry about the gas anymore. Just bought a bike and now my teggy sits and collects dust //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif The only time I'll get extremely worried is when my company can't afford to send my *** out to jobs and such.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

Sad but my truck I'm dumping all my money in sits most of the time, only gets used for camping trips and when I need to haul something. Almost a year old and only 6k miles on it.

Motorcycles are more fun and better on gas though.

 

[canadapettit 10+ year member]

One problem we have is that the government won't drill for oil here. We have oil just off shore, in Colorado, and in Alaska but we aren't drilling it. Gas prices are going to be high until we have a economic melt down like Asia had back in the late 90's. Other wise you better get used to $6.00 a gallon gas, cus its gunna happen

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

Hopefully other nations jump all over that and we can continue to be an oil sloth nation...at cheaper prices.
Problem solved!

They already have.... for example, have you seen the fuel mileage capability of some of the small displacement gas and diesel vehicles in Europe and Japan that have come out in the past few years? 55+ MPG isn't uncommon.

The entire EU is ahead of the US in oil imports by about 4.6M barrels per day (17.7M vs. 13.1M, which marks the #1 and #2 spots on the consumption list), and they have certainly had a huge availability incline in high fuel efficient vehicles to combat this.

The US isn't far behind, but we won't see the first models of gas and diesel ultra high MPG until probably the end of '09 as '10 models appear. I hear rumors of a diesel Civic, Accord, Altima, and Versa, as well as a hybrid version of the Fit using the system from the canceled Insight. Should be interesting to compare/contrast what the US versions will get in terms of mileage vs. the versions exported to the rest of the world.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Well, Hummer is almost a thing of the past now...lol I hear they're about to get canned as a model line. No more 12 mpg super SUV's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Im all for bikes, too bad they **** when it rains and you cant put 15" subs in them. And their a/c is speed dependent //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif