[JL8Jeff]

Gas prices won't go back down much ever. The price of gas in Europe has been double what we pay for a long, long time. It has nothing to do with oil companies in the US, it's due to the world demand for oil and the available supply OPEC allows. With China and Japan demanding more oil it will only run the price up. So we need alternative mixtures or start drilling in the Artic(I don't know why we aren't since the cost of oil already justifies the increased cost to retrieve it). And while we're looking for other fuel supplies we need to reduce out consumption, plain and simple. There are no mini size pickups or SUV's anymore because we Americans got greedy and wanted bigger, bigger, bigger trucks! Look at the size of the original 4Runner to the current model, it's not even close! The S10 is gone, the Tacoma got bigger, the RAV4 got bigger, the Nissan got bigger. We're a bunch of spoiled brats. I've barely put 10K miles on my 4Runner and Camaro combined for the last 18 months. If people take the time to plan out trips and don't mash the gas pedal to the floor when the light turns green, we can reduce our consumption considerably. But that will never happen.