The Daily Signal – by Kate Scanlon
You might want to consider filling up your tanks, America. One expert is warning $5 per gallon gas is on its way.
John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil, warns that we should “[e]njoy the price, because it’s going to go back up.”
“The next round of high prices is likely to start later this year, as crude rebounds to the $80s and $90s, perhaps pushing to the $100 level by late in the year or early next,” Hofmeister told USA Today.
Prices per barrel as high as Hofmeister projects would mean a significant hike in the price you pay at the pump.
Hofmeister said that skyrocketing gas prices and even gas shortages are possible.
“Over the next several years, as demand growth approaches 100 million barrels a day and the industry production falls short, yes, I believe later this decade we’ll see $5 a gallon and possible shortages of fuel in some parts of the world,” he told USA Today.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that the average price of a gallon of gas in 2015 will be $2.33.
Hofmeister is now the founder and chief executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy, a nonprofit that “promotes sound U.S. energy security solutions for the nation, including a range of affordable energy supplies, efficiency improvements, essential infrastructure, sustainable environmental policies and public education on energy issues.”
He believes that the solution to fluctuating oil prices is utilizing natural gas.
“I believe that with the right focus and development of the natural gas fuels market, we could begin to reduce global demand for oil from the 100-million-barrels-a-day level around 2020 to lower demand levels by substituting natural gas fuels,” he told USA Today. “We could pull it back to 90, 80, even 70 million barrels a day over the next two to three decades, taking enormous pressure off chronic high oil prices.”
Kate Scanlon is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/25/5-gallon-gas-way-expert-thinks/
Everything in the matrix economy is manipulated – pricing is rigged – the system gamed by the ruling elite.
Of course prices will go higher and probably before all the little slave families take off for summer vacations.
Did anyone really believe Old Rex over at Exxon – the worlds most profitable global corp was really going to sit back and let profits slump too far?
Of course this gives them an excuse to push the older employees to the curve.
It’s all one big game. Cadillac reportedly has an engine that gets 70 miles to the gallon sold in Mexico but not allowed to sell here – it would wreck profit model
China also has cheap solar panels that can supply all the power you need for about $300. They are also sod in Mexico but will never be allowed here
Read more at jimstonefreelance dot com
We are fleeced out of our money constantly – that is the matrix game
The money grubbin’ pols best get their gas tax tagged on now.
Why is there a crisis when gas is HIGH ***and*** when it’s low? wtf?