What will gas prices look like in the year 2050?
370341
I bet by then we'll have alternative fuel
646770
They wouldn't be able to afford cars and gas in their country, so once they're here they'll have cars and add to the demand on gas. \n\nThe gas will keep going higher and higher. There's no end in sight to the gas problem, but yes based upon supply and demand, this problem can increase the demand even more.
679376
You see Mars?\n\nThat is what the Earth will look like in 50 years if we keep fighting over oil and nukes.
328579
My old prediction was that their will be little change in consumption until fuel reaches $7/gallon. After watching the news last week, I'm beginning to think it may be closer to $5/gallon.\n\n$12/gallon would be too high, as the transportation charges would cause a serious blow to the cost of consumer goods and trigger inflation big time.
680571
POSSIBLE maybe in 2030
452439
I think those things will become increasingly important given the trends in the price of oil. Companies will shift to alternative forms of energy to save money. I don't know that it will stop wars among nations.
480998
They're high.  But I think don't think we're in the "too high" range yet.  That'll probably be this summer and the year after.  We're still around 80% of the all time high for gas compared to the oil crisis we had years ago.
300860
no gas prices should go higher!!\n\nthen maybe fat a**es will stop driving their big fat SUV's, take a bus\nand other technologies will be developed\n\nthe gov't did not create the "gas problem" people being lazy did
1055015
Certainly not the bunch of oil-money sucking goofs in Washington, D.C.  (and I'm talking about both sides of the aisle, for those of you who still believe there's a difference).\n\nGood old ingenuity will do it, and enough people are sick of the status quo that I think it will happen within the next 5 years.  I see a lot of people talking about electricity for cars in Y answers--forget it.  Batteries too heavy, most electricity still produced using fossil fuels.  "Hybrids" are smoke and mirrors--still rely on fossil fuels.  My question would be, "Which intelligent people out there are smart enough to buck the system and introduce some new, truly alternative energy sources, not to the hide-bound corporate types and the politicians, but to the average Joes and Janes in this country who would like real options?"
261865
Demand is Growing:  More people own an SUV (gas hogs).\nIf everyone would switch to a hybrid vehicle, they would cut their need for gas by 65%.  Demand would fall and gas prices would fall.  \nUnfortunately there are too many irresponsible people in the world and this will ultimately lead to our demise.
86348
Gasoline futures are wholesale prices and do not include taxes which are substantial. A future also has to account for storage and inteerst costs.
378056
They'll just keep putting the prices up because they know that companies and individuals have no option but to pay.  It's what's heppened here in the UK where gas is now more than $7.50 a gallon and demand is still rising.\n\nThere won't be fuel rationing unless there's an actual shortage of fuel and that doesn't seem likely.\n\nI can only speak for the UK when I say that there has been fuel rationing - during the war and during the oil crisis of the early 1970's.
1154704
Sounds like a good choise to me. As in the near future with the cost of petrol going up continually, people wont be able to afford to run a car!
1170147
Maybe never.  Back in the 1970s, everyone thought alternative energy is going to go through the roof.  The oil prices fell...
586465
No problem "N". I'm actually in the market for a new car and I'm considering the Civic hybrid, with the current criminal Bush administration in charge of things, I foresee gas prices going up and up. Some neocon zombies will cite supply and demand, yeah right. Bush is an oil man first and formost. I can't wait for 2008. Give your horses a carrot from me :)
912031
It shouldn't...at least not in 2020.  There are enough oil supplies to last till 2050.  And we're still finding new oil fields.
691710
The sun will rise and so will gas prices!