Gasoline prices: How high will it go?

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I dont know what prompted your personal attack on me, i thought i had a right to my opinion. Guess you can dish it out but you cant take it.

Let's see here, your first post in this thread is a direct insult to Sir TtT's vehicle sense:

Many poeple dont have the funds to go out and purchase a hunk of junk hybrid vehicle

When Sir TtT responds in kind to your insult (appropriately, I might add, also based on your comment of "that's just giving in to these prices") you respond with:

i think you are a moron for buying one and you look like a dork driving it

Now that's a personal attack if I ever saw one!
Then you further irritate the matter by saying

it's safe to say i have more money in my pocket than if I went out and bought an ugly hybrid

Then as soon as there's a retaliatory comment you cry "Would you guys relax a little? I made a simple statement, and Terrence makes a personal attack on me"
Based on that little exchange, I would say that someone can dish it out but can't take it, but in this case that someone isn't Sir TtT!

Hey, you're not a real-life version of the character in Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher", are you "Duds"?

I'm having fun here in case you guys cant see my sarcasm.

Maybe if your comments weren't so pointed it would have been different, but they came across as pretty insulting from my perspective.

if you have a two seater then you can use the lane if you have a passenger. We just had a law here approved so that I can ride in that lane even If I didn't have a passenger with me.

That makes sense and sounds as if a good law was passed. I'm assuming that it means you can drive in the HOV alone if you're in a hybrid. Or does it apply to any car or motorcycle that gets over say, 50 MPG? You do realize this means you no longer have any (believable) excuse to keep your inflatable woman around, don't you?

The battery in the Insight is used to assist in acceleration, and to start the car from neutral. It doesn't run out(I have never seen it happen with me),

Oh, but it would eventually run out, as energy doesn't come out of thin air.

the battery is recharged when the car coasts, when braking, or in deceleration.

Yes, but some of that energy which brought the car up to cruising speed came from gasoline.

The battery actually helps the car use less fuel when accelerating, and charging doesn't use any extra gas whasoever.

I believe the Prius relies totally on electric power when accelerating from stop. Charging technically uses gas...it's just a process of recovering the energy that was used to get the car up to speed. If you don't believe it, then just let the fuel tank go empty. Eventually the batteries will go dead because the gas is needed to maintain the charge.

Dude, you've totally got to reply to one of us at a time

Whatsamatter, you can't keep up??

A percentage of the population like Sir T have adjusted, but not enough to make a difference, yet. In fact just the opposite...people apparently don't care about the price of gas and now we're seeing SUV's sales growing again.

I think many people have made adjustments and many are probably waiting to see what happens. People love the behemoths so it may take $4/gal to get them to change their minds, maybe more. Even if some wanted to get out of them, could they do so if the demand on the used market meant they couldn't get enough out of the sale to pay off their loans or perhaps would take a severe beating on a trade-in? From what I've seen, the sales incentives are on the SUVs which means the car companies are having greater difficulty moving them now.

a higher price means less demand or decreased supply

Sorry, but a higher price tends to follow greater demand for a product that's in limited supply

No need to apologize, you are only half right here...Price is set where demand and supply meet, two functions, not one exclusively.

Uh, it wasn't quite "an apology" and the words "tends to follow" takes into account those two components of the equation. One thing for certain though is that "a higher price" doesn't "mean less demand" in the supply-and-demand equation. This is just a matter of semantics as I believe you're saying that as a result of higher prices people will seek alternative options, eventually lessening demand. But then that weaker demand will eventually result in lowering of prices, won't it?

Fair is relative when your talking government programs. Health-care isn't so important to me at my age with my health...give me tax cuts or better highways. If I was 70 with cancer my opinion might change on how money should be spent.

Fairness is more absolute when you can put yourself in the shoes of that 70-year-old with cancer. Theoretically, you shouldn't have to "be there" to determine if that's fair or not.

But didn't you say earlier that there was a huge disparity in prices across Canada because of taxes?

Nope...might have been someone else. I don't know what prices are everywhere else...but tax levels outside of oil-bearing Alberta aren't radically different from region to region...they are different though, but the price of gas tends to be fairly similar.

Then who said this in post #30?

I did a bit more research on the Canadian tax levels...they vary by province...according to Esso (division of Exxon, www.esso.ca) 40-50% of the price at the pumps includes a direct gas tax...there's double and even triple taxing going on...On the east cost, some provinces have a gas surcharge of 8% (Harmonized Sales Tax) as well...Of the manufacturing costs reported, there's more surtcharges/taxes levied that the oil companies are having to pass on.

Good news is I can change in July.
We're a US company lots of Americans relocated here. Some of my peers are in the same boat some aren't. Things heat up in the summer when everyone decides which currency to choose. Knowing my luck I'll go 0 for 2.

Hey, I'll sell you my Magic 8 Ball for only $88 and that'll help you make the right choice! Consider it a meager investment for the windfall you'll make!!

First I wasn't attacking you personally. I was attacking a very arrogant american like thought process

Oh, those are some GREAT weasel words Sir TtT. You're not a lawyer by profession, are you?

Sure, Subarus have 4 wheel drive, could my dog fit in the back?

If he was a real dog, you could just tie him to the bumper like the Griswolds did in one of those National Lampoon "Vacation" movies!