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Back to the price of fuel. Everyone will have a breaking point, thus, I assume, the interest around here of seeing how far one can go on a gallon. The predictability. However much one conserves it still doesn't matter in re the distances one must cover. Or to the transport of goods to a local retailer. Those fixed distances.
Price goes up, availabiity goes down, roads worsen, then the current high mpg numbers we all savor also decline. Imagine the sheeple trying to hypermile in a car they can't maintain, repair or decently insure on roads in terrible shape with permanent lane closures, etc.
The predictability of how far a gallon will take us goes out the window once traffic, roads and convenience disappears.
$4/gl fuel isn't that point, today. But there may be a point where $4/gl fuel is irrelevant -- as a high or a low -- to being able to operate a vehicle within ones own economy.
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