Oil prices - What's the breaking point for you?

[pundit]

I'm praying for a miracle.

Then you should join the Christian Conservatives, vote to keep the Republicans in power and pray that the U.S. invades another oil rich country sometime soon.

Simple really.

Don't bother with Darfur though, the Chinese have already got that area covered... and they're also looking at Antarctica.

That will prove to be interesting in Chinese/Australian relations to say the least!

[Paul in NZ]

its all relative,because alternative forms of transport will increase the same(proportionally) eg trains buses trams ,whatever they all use oil in some form or another...so the cost of getting to work and the cost of getting supplied is going to skyrocket,bio fuel is not the answer we can hardly grow enough food now.....for the moment i will keep using the 535 and drive it as econonomically as possible.Push bike and motorbikes are the next step for me but i will prolly keep the 5.Only a very small modern car is going to use appreciable less petrol or diesel.We need fusion.......

[Mitch90535im]

I only drive a couple of miles each way to the office, which I could walk or bicycle if I just had to, telecommute two days a week, and next spring if all goes as planned I'm going to buy a late model 1200 GS. We're definetly taking shorter trips in the RV this summer. I do feel sorry for anyone trying to cope with these prices (not just gasoline, but everything going up as result) living on a limited or fixed income like my mom or my kids. I don't think we're ever going to see gas prices here in the US like enjoyed for so many years. When I first bought my e34 89 octane was running around .79 - .89 per gallon here in North GA. I think I gave $3.59 when I filled up last week. It took about $350 round trip in the RV from N GA to Savannah and back week before last.

My attitude is that we will adapt, we will do whatever it takes, and the sun will still rise in the east tomorrow morning and set in the west tomorrow afternoon. What we need is an alternative fuel source for automobiles and eventually American inguenity will prevail.

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

At $50 to $60 bucks a fill up...I'll keep going till they pry the keys from my cold dead hand

F those bastidigs in their Hybrid fag mobiles.

[pundit]

At $50 to $60 bucks a fill up I can ride it out.

What about at $200.00?

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

What about at $200.00?

Gotta drive that ///M5!

[pgrindstaff]

I'll keep buying till it just isn't feasable anymore but I would really like to see what would happen if the speculators took a month off. I have a feeling we'd get some relief real quick. This is just wishful thinking though, they make too much money by driving the price of oil up.

[525i winter driver]

i don't drive much... summers i bicycle, and work's not far anyway. i think the whole world needs to use cars way way less and that we don't even take good enough care of the ones we have and we use them recklessly. i think gas prices should be higher, prohibitive transportation costs (instead of taxes) ought to force us to shop locally and seasonally, and that we should use hXmp for biofuel instead of food. (yes, we can) an inconvenience for most of us is already spelling disaster for billions of poor people.

anyway, gas is nothing compared to how much i spend on parts!

[Ross]

It cost ~ $70 USD to fill mine with premium. I'm ****in' well sick of it but as long as my neighbors all insist on driving gigantic heaps of **** the demand will outpace the supply and I(we) suffer.
I CANNOT WAIT to see all these humungo SUVs go to the crusher, worthless pieces of crap they are.
I'm ashamed of what a bunch of wasters and consumers many of my coutrymen are.

[Mitch90535im]

It cost ~ $70 USD to fill mine with premium. I'm ****in' well sick of it but as long as my neighbors all insist on driving gigantic heaps of **** the demand will outpace the supply and I(we) suffer.
I CANNOT WAIT to see all these humungo SUVs go to the crusher, worthless pieces of crap they are.
I'm ashamed of what a bunch of wasters and consumers many of my coutrymen are.

But Ross, the 535i M30 is not exactly an economy car either.