Gas Prices--What CAN we do?

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OK, a serious question. I know everyone says the President can't do anything to lower gas prices. Only we can. As an overly concerned US citizen, I would love to hear what we can do to lower prices. I'm all for it. Unfortunately when it comes to working--I have to drive a car. I live 22 miles away and in a direction where there are no employees to carpool with. However, I have parked my car and opted to drive a 4 cylinder standard shift instead. What more can we really do?
 
Buy less to lower demand, that would lower the price although not substantially. But the american dollar is so tied to oil that we have to accept the high price to keep our currency afloat.
 
take the bus,walk,share a car,there are many options in life but modern man has lost his way of thinking logically.
 
Conserve, conserve, conserve. Good for you, driving a 4-cyl stick shift. It's more fun anyway.

I'm hoping they'll adopt a 4 day work week (10 hours) at my work, but who knows.
 
Nothing. The price of oil goes up every day. It seems like not very long ago everyone was freaking out about the price of oil going over $100 per barrel. Now it's up to almost $130 a barrel. The demand is just going to keep going up. More and more people in China are buying cars. With the way their economy is growing, people that have never had cars before are getting them. Same thing with India. I would like to take mass transit, but it's hard for me because I work strange hours, and I have to drive my kids to the babysitter before I go to work. What takes me less than an hour in my car would take at least 2 hours by mass transit. And getting off work late at night I don't feel safe waiting at bus and trains stations late at night. There are a lot of robberies where I live. If you believe in the peak oil theory which says that there will be a point were oil production will level off, and then start dropping because all the oil fields will start drying up, then you could imagine the price of oil going up more, way more. So in the future gas could be $10 a gallon, or more.
 
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