The Future of Gasoline...What is you opinion?

[Mr. Belvedere]

Do you think that at some point in the next decade or two we will have vehicles that no longer consume gasoline? Do you think at some point it will be tough if not impossible to buy gas for these automotive dinosaurs we love? Just trying to think about whether or not to invest in making my own back yard still for refining crude?

[Norm's Coupe]

Gas will probably always be around. May cost a little more though. After all, we'll still need gasoline to run other equipment such as tractors, etc. So........I wouldn't rush out and build a still to produce it myself. By the time gasoline is obsolete, I probably won't be around to worry about it anyway.

[JIPJOBXX]

Sure and it will be cheap as we get on board on various ways to retreave oil in various forms.

[Johnny S]

I suspect it will be around for some time (at least 2 or 3 decades in quantity) and will then be replaced by electricity, hydrogen fuel cells, diesel/biodiesel and LPG's. The cost will continue to go up considerably and availability will decline.....that's my brain fart for the day!

[Captain Neon]

I don't expect gasoline to be unavailable in my lifetime, and I expect to be driving for another 60 years. Fortunately, our friends at Yale developed a carburetor for the MoPar L6 that uses LP. If things go from bad to worse, I should be able to rig a bottle in the trunk and put a forklift carburetor on the intake manifold. I'm not emotionally attached enough to any of my other vehicles not to part with them for something else. At the very least, I know enough that I could use windpower-generated electricty to power an electric moonshine still to turn corn-squeezings to white lightning. Very inefficient and expensive, but I at least know what to do to take my P15 out for a Sunday drive if I can't get gasoline locally.

[Norm's Coupe]

Let's not forget the movie "Mad Max".

[62rebelP23]

we'll never lose gasoline as a fuel. proof? weed trimmers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chain saws, riding and push mowers. i don't see Echo or Husquvarna developing any hybrid power systems.

[Captain Neon]

we'll never lose gasoline as a fuel. proof? weed trimmers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers, chain saws, riding and push mowers. i don't see Echo or Husquvarna developing any hybrid power systems.

All of these items already have electric versions. Some run off a cord, and the rest have rechargable batteries. They may not work as well as a gasoline powered engine, but they are readily available and relatively popular w/ Green suburbanites.

[62rebelP23]

my point wasn't that there weren't electric versions; heck; there are even some MANUAL versions (if there's anybody left that knows how to wield a bushaxe or sickle these days) of these ubiquitous stench and noise makers.

what i meant was that the continued massive over production of cheap, basically "throwaway" 2 stroke gas engined power tools proves that as far as the makers are concerned, gasoline will always be there.

and if it wasn't clear, i hate these things. nothing IMHO speaks "illegal immigrant labor" louder than a dozen leaf blowers clearing a parking lot.

[Don Jordan]

I remember talking to my grandmother. When she was a little girl she never thought they would do away with horses.

I drove past a house just a block away from me - the guy must have 15 horses. I told my wife what does anyone need 15 horses for. She was kind enough to remind me I had 6 cars. Some times women can screw up a good conversation with logic.

Many of us hold on to the past - some just go a little further back than others.

[MacTexas]

When they develop the electric airplane then I believe that gas will be obsolete.

[Don Coatney]

When they develop the electric airplane then I believe that gas will be obsolete.

Electric airplanes are available now.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/04/electric-airpla.html

[Mr. Belvedere]

Must be a 6V system, look at the size of those cables going to the motor.