Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil

I don't think its the end of sprawl, it may slow it until a relatively cheap alternative appears. People like their space.

Prices are rising? Sorry, folks, but money isn't the only "cost" regarding oil, gas, coal, etc.

These are natural resources that won't last forever, so higher prices are inevitable.

Maybe $200 a barrel is a good thing -- maybe then we can make the necessary changes!

HEMP IS THE KEY!

Oil is not running out in the near future. Greedy has taken a massive toll. I would like to state that Texas will not fall with the rest of these United States. May they defy every single environmental idiot and go against any law prohibiting them from drilling and drill the living daylights out of the Gulf of Mexico.

If states can deny the Government from making them drill then the state can deny any government or group from keeping them from dilling.

I hope it happens and then there will be a different type of rush.....for people will start to want the benefit of an Oil State even if they are so gun-ho on environment .

No one is going to pay more when there's a cheaper...way cheaper way of living no matter what's at stake.

If you took all the money that was spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and used it to buy 1 electric/hybrid car for every American citizen, you'd most likely still have enough left over for researching other alternative energy sources for providing heating and electricity for home and business use.

We need to put a stop to this deliberate manipulation of currency and oil markets and the sabotage of the collective movement of everyday people. People are ready to embrace all alternate technologies; its time to put the Monopoly game away, we're talking about real people's lives here.

The nearsightedness motivated by greed era is going to come to a end when it is faced with the most rude awakening; the total invalidation of their wealth, it can happen, the whole house of cards can come crashing down in a day. The conditions are just ripe for such a thing to happen.

so are we (the people here) going to sit back and watch as these oil barons bring our standard of living down just so they can add a billion to their bank accounts?

its time for a change. if it doesn't happen now, the next generation may not have a chance to change it.

Don't forget....Urban Blight is a bigger problem than urban sprawl.

I'm ready.

Got my bikes, food, water.

Times are about to get real interesting.

Ride on!

anyone seen mad max lately...........sounds like the direction were headed in

The end of the suburbs as we know it but i would like to throw this out our elected officials should have been smart enough to see this coming.But as everywhere else in the world where they are paying six dollars or more plus America is finally catching up with the world in a wrong way.Enjoy all those silverados sierras f-150s and the like will be dinosaurs in a couple of years.and if america wants change bad enough to elect someone who would rather see us ride bicycles instead of putting out like a automotive x-prize to pvt industry or pvt citizens to develop cars to get 200 miles per gallon on a tank of gas of 12 to 15 gallons i urge everyone to throw the bums outs

Americans blindly vote locally (or dont vote) for politicians that only cater to the special interest, IE Developers with cheap overprice housing, full of energy deficient devices. Buying them, under the pretense of quick fortunes and taking long wasteful drives to Wallmarts and KMarts on Sundays because there is no public transportation and very little culture and alternative activities to them. Politicians know full well that those pretensions fuel by your desperate consumerism in search of the ever elusive "Happiness" keeps them in position of power to offer only what you need in exchange for greed.

They know that you are getting fat eating pizza on Saturday nights and cranking your AC or Heater, and therefore catering to the interest of the electric and energy companies. They know that your lack of personality and self esteem drives you to buy bigger cars as if that would be the only reason to exist, so they cater to the local dealerships by plunging more money on roads instead of public transportation.
They also cater to your consumerism under the false pretense of full employment by allowing massive construction of Ugly subdivisions and Commercial centers, diverting money from education and culture into the hands of shameless developers trying to sell you the "American Dream" (More like a nightmare).

In the process killing thousands of species, natural reserves, taxing water beds, local businesses and you guess it (or maybe not) gulping more energy. So the US at work goes into other countries and take what you need so they keep you overweight and stoopid (eating pizza on saturday night) unaware of the rights you have under the constitution you claim to know (if only three or four amendments) with information that feeds your insecurities, by telling you that the world is full of bad guys and bad places and that only "Happy-land" is the place to be, that your decision to buy the biggest house and the grandest car and all those prozac pills and Viagra is protected by the 22th amendment of the constitution so help you god.

So there you have freedom but you dont know what to do with it, "gee I have to use my brain, so I will do it some other day, let me check Spike channel" IF YOU DONT VOTE WE WILL CONTINUE TO GO ON THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF DESPAIR. If people dont DEMAND the changes that are needed and practice restraint in their personal lives, gas not only will be 10 Dlls a gallon you will have no alternative energies, and without that you will have no pizza or TV on Saturday night. If you dont know your rights, they will use them against you. Politicians are prepared, locally or nationally to win your fantasies, but never to cater to your needs.

It is very simple VOTE even if your boss gets mad, inform yourself while you are eating that pizza, listen to different points of view while driving nowhere with your car, READ YOUR CONSTITUTION and understand it. Vote for politicians because the have the know, not because they look good. Do it because if you have sons or daughters in this pivotal moment in history, they may reap the benefits of a greater society globally, or if you dont they may be doom to suffering and extinction.

Bon apetite!

Ok gas is at 4$ or more a gallon now. If you got half your fuel from water then you would reduce your cost to 2$ per gallon. If you produced the same fuel from coal and water you would reduce your per gallon cost to around .25 cents per gallon. This is all possible with today's technology.

The high price of oil, while almost ludicrous, could be the wake-up call we need. I have been cutting back on my energy use, driving habits, and so on. After watching "An Inconvenient Truth" I came to the conclusion that the situation with global warming is serious enough that "business as usual" must change in governments,communities, and, within each of us individually. The point I am making is that we all need to spread the words that Mr. Gore has so eloquently expressed in the belief that even raising awareness is a step in the right direction. At least through awareness there is a chance we'll get it right.
Jim

First of all An Inconvenient Truth is all B.S. The one scene where you see glaciers falling into the ocean is a direct CGI scene from Day After Tomorrow. Almost all of the stats quoted in his movie are hogwash. Even if global warming is real his movie is a discredit to the true science.
I believe it is called junk science.