DescentBB

Time to start investing in energy companies and car manufactuerers who are pondering hybrids....

If one of these automobile manufacturers had any cajones, they'd switch their entire line over to hybrids. They might take a price hit in converting the infrastructure, but with these gas prices, I'd bet they'd experience record sales.

Top Gun wrote:If one of these automobile manufacturers had any cajones, they'd switch their entire line over to hybrids. They might take a price hit in converting the infrastructure, but with these gas prices, I'd bet they'd experience record sales.

But thats the thing, the oil companies have too much influence on the car companies for them to do anything dramatic in a short period of time. In fact the idea of an electric car is nothing new, and one has been invented in the 1920's. There were plans that instead of parking meters there would be hook ups to charge up your car. But of course the oil companies didnt want that and instead wanted people to buy their energy instead of an electric car, and thus the concept died and people have been given the impression that electric cars are difficult to manufacture and requires a computer for this and that when in reality it has already been done long before there were transistors! I dont buy this bulshit that the big 3 says that there are no demand (because they make them ugly on purpose so that people will NOT buy them!), or that it is difficult to make or requires a computer, or any other "technological hurdle". They just want you to buy their goddamn oil so you can fill their pockets with your money. Anybody who does not think this needs to have their head checked and a serious history lesson on the oil companie's past influence.

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Grendel wrote:$5 should be easily possible -- it's ~$6 in germany right now.

We're on par with Germany and the rest of European countries when it comes to gas prices.. It's still more than twice cheaper over the pond than it is here.

I totally agree with Top Wop. And unfortunatly the Gov't won't step in and force some changes because they will lose precious tax revenue. Same thing goes for alcohol and smokes.

MD-2389 wrote:

Kiran wrote:I'm in Tenn and we're paying $1.89 a gal currently. That's still not too bad for me considering I drive a honda civics (and I love my car:-P). However, if the prices end up being $3 a gallon... screw driving a car. I'm getting a horse.

I don't know what part of TN you live in, but on the western part of the state its $2.29 on average for 87 grade and 2.45 for diesel.

Eastern, in a small town near Knoxville.
I can only imagine what the gas prices will be like this summer when all the tourists come through this small town.

Sorry folk; don't buy the simple conspiracy theory. I think a greater reason the internal combustion engine won out over electric was the greater performance/cost ratio for gas and diesel engines over electrics. Who knows, if Henry Ford had built cheap reliable electric cars instead of the Model A's and T's, then perhaps things would have been different.

Top Gun wrote:If one of these automobile manufacturers had any cajones, they'd switch their entire line over to hybrids. They might take a price hit in converting the infrastructure, but with these gas prices, I'd bet they'd experience record sales.

Actually, you're right. But that'd be a huge one-time fee. It'd cost a lot of money to do all at once, and then they got to deal with the unions and move them over.

btw, TG, that would be cojones ...

dissent wrote:btw, TG, that would be cojones ...

Sorry, I don't habla Espanol.

(I'm hoping that at least one other person immediately associates that statement with "the Nino!" )

I think I payed 2.77 for midgrade the other day..

I was down in Staunton, VA the other day and our locations are selling gas for 1.99. O_o

We actually sold out of 87 grade fuel further south.