Actually I don't expect gas to get expensive too quickly. Oil reserves are getting pretty full right now (
it was on the news this morning) and the speculators are going to have to either start releasing it or else stop storing it, and in either case I think we'll see a brief glut on the market and gas prices will take another dip. One analyst was quoted as saying crude could go below $20/bbl.
The mind boggles. Because a certain broad segment of the population has next to no long-term memory, sales of full-size trucks will take a jump (followed next year by a glut on the market of one-year-old used full size trucks), and prices on used economy cars and hybrids will plummet.
Start warming up your checkbooks, boys. Flyweights are gonna get cheap.