Will rising gas prices in America cause an economic depression?

by Ralph Lawrence

FASHIONABLE FARCE This April Fools day, appropriately, the Congress of the United States invited the management of the five largest oil companies to come to Capitol Hill to g...read more

by Casey Provost

Of course it will lets get real most people commute 20miles or more one way to work...now that is 40miles a day and 200miles a week without excess driving. Most cars we will sa...read more

by Tim Williams

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will ride into the US economy and the rest of the world. All this has been brought on by the greed of investors, speculators, wall street ban...read more

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by Ronald Nunn

The problem is that the rise in fuel costs have already caused an economic depression. Since October of 2007, the price of everyday items such as milk, eggs and grains used to m...read more

by Joe Blaikie

The American economy is in dangerous territory right now. It has been severely weakened by the bursting of the housing bubble. It has been weakened by the falling value of the...read more

by Joe Polo

I think that it will cause a depression. People are already driving less. And for people living paycheck to paycheck - it's becoming a big problem. But it's not just gass pri...read more

by V. Kumar

Rising gas prices have become so intricately linked with the health of American economy that their rise is bound to create a crisis, and an economic depression is only one of th...read more

by Scott Heritage

The United States more than any other nation on earth relies heavily upon gasoline for all its modes of transport, and the very idea of independence is to have your own car and ...read more

by Rich Sabatini

WE SHALL OVERCOME The United States has culturally and economically been dependent on cheap gasoline ever since the 1920's, when the Model-T became universally affordable to...read more

by Eliza Brown

Here's the basic lowdown on how the product comes to the shelf for the consumer to purchase. First, it must be manufactured by a factory distributes the product onto the semis. ...read more

by Pamela Grundy

Rising gas prices will cause an economic depression, not just in the US, but worldwide, unless our dependence on oil and other nonrenewable energy sources is reversed within the...read more

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by Lou Jones

The best Americans can hope for as fuel scarcity and increased demand drive the cost of energy higher is a long, slow depression that ends as humans develop and widely implement...read more

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by Daniel Christian

The best Americans can hope for as fuel scarcity and increased demand drive the cost of energy higher is a long, slow depression that ends as humans develop and widely implement...read more

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by Roger Knight

Remember that Bush tax cut? Remember when the democrats illustrated the Bush tax cut by showing us a car's exhaust system? As in: new exhaust pipes, catalytic converter, muffle...read more

by Ted Sherman

In the movie, "Wall Street", the hard-nosed sock manipulator played by Michael Douglas said at a stockbroker meeting, "The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack o...read more

by Bruce Bostwick

As you can see gas keeps increasing in price and it's going to bring this country possibly to the second Great Depression. What is happening is that it is getting harder and ha...read more

by B. K. Walker

The rising gas prices in America will no doubt have a huge affect on our economy. I am not speaking to the issue of whether or not the American people need to conserve energy o...read more

by Victor Strange

I would have to start by simply asking the question, have you been to the gas station lately? I am sure you have, and if you are an average salary earner like myself a trip to ...read more

by Dan Balcom

Gas prices, the trigger of the gun that can blow our economy right out of the water. Everything in our economy is directly connected to the price of Gas at the pump. All of our ...read more

by Marshell

I believe that if gas prices go any higher than $100 a barrel we will surely crash. aside from going shopping and joyriding, the delivery of goods to our markets will cause the ...read more