[DriveElectric]

I have my Toyota Prius and I can go almost 600 miles per tank. 12 gallon tank, so even if there is a limit of 5 gallons/week or such rationing, that still will get me 250 miles. I have identified 3 co-workers who live within 2 miles of me. We could easily meet in a common location for carpool.

[DoctorDoom]

Within 3 miles of my home I have a grocery store and my office, so I could get by with a bicycle for a long time. My closest friend is only 5 miles away, and a shopping mall is about 6 miles. I use a motor scooter that gets 80 mpg for most of those short trips. I still need the car, though - there' no other way to transport largish objects, passengers, etc., and it's the only way to cover longer distances to the nearest city, friend's places, distant stores. So, yeah, I'll be lining up for gas, just less frequently than most people.

I wonder, though, if gas lines really are in the future. Consider this: making people queue up for gas isn't going to stretch the supply. Instead, given limited supply, either the price needs to go up to the point people don't buy as much, or (given government price limits) there will be a shortage and some people will end up without any gas to buy. This is what leads to gas lines - the fear that if you don't get some right away, there won't be any left by the time you go. Of course anyone at the head of a line will, at some point, need to re-enter the line at the end anyway, so you might wonder
what's the point. And hence the line - people refill more frequently in a futile attempt to stave off disaster.

Lines won't stretch the supply, so what will? Assuming the government doesn't want to let pricing do the dirty work, rationing is the only answer. The current government will let pricing work for a while, but at some point cries from the lower income elements of society will cause them (or the next government) to step in with some form of rationing. In the 70s there was rationing where you got a fixed number of gallons based on the number of cylinders in your vechicle. They also did the odd/even license thing just to thin out the lines (didn't work). 70s-style rationing isn't very fair because it rewards people with gas-guzzlers by giving them more gas. I think we will see a return to WW2-style rationing with coupon books.
Ideally, it would also allow those of us who use relatively little gas to sell or give away our unused coupons to our friends.

[BicycleCommuter]

I have been a bicycle commuter for almost 10 years now and we are a one-car (minivan) family. My wife works part time from our house doing transcribing when the kids are napping. We recently moved closer to my work and to an area that is currently re-developing the downtown into a walkable and bikable community. Virtually everything we need we can access by walking or bicycling.
Bicyclecommuter bikes not bombs!

[KiddieKorral]

I could stay out of the gas lines were it not for the fact that my job is 25 miles away.

[gnm]

I've been getting 50mpg on my motorcycle so commuting wouldn't be too bad, but for the occasional china mart run with the truck I would need to fill er up now and then... probably could adapt to super early or late fill ups to avoid the worst of it I suppose.

-G

[Barbara]

My 50cc scooter goes at about 100 mpg, so I'll simply fill the car tank only once to go on for WEEKS.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I'm around 3 miles from town. if the busses stop running we'll bike. I recently got my kids new bikes so we are set. I also have a 49cc scooter that works once in a while if I need too.

[Pops]

I work and play at home too; but I wonder if I would be working on designer-boy stuff very long in that case. I would probably wind up really working at home!
I suppose the price would be a bigger problem than the lines. I imagine gas prices doubling or tripling would keep the lines down some. Now we make a trip to the little town – 6 miles, at least a couple times a week for milk, libations, misc hardware, blah, but we certainly wouldn’t be spending that much money should real shortages occur. It would be milk from the dairy next door, libations from the vine and recycled hardware!

We could easily get by with a run to town every 4-6 weeks and a trip to Sams (45 miles) every 3-6 months -
That is if we had the cash to run and any left to spend when we got there!
{thought I had posted this already – wonder which thread it went on, LOL}

[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y bikes are powered by cheeseburgers.

[turmoil]

i doubt that lines will form if many can't pay for it.
Between the government subsidy of gas ending, oil prices, and layoffs, i doubt that cars will be anywhere but parked.
Bicycles are the best invention ever.

[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('stupid_monkeys', 'B')icycles are the best invention ever.

[highlander]

Seems to me there isn't enough housing available in cities to take care of everybody who lives in suburbia so.....they will pay whatever it costs for gas as long as they can get it.
I'll continue cooking my own fuel as long as you bikers are eating cheeseburgers and a side of fries! remember to say supersize mine

[pilferage]

I've been pulling a 15-20mph average on ~10mile bicycle rides, I'm slowly but surely closing in on my automobile commute times for the same distance. I don't think I'll get there w/o fairing, but I can get pretty close...
I usually do a 80 mile trip once per week since my Camry isn't too shabby @ 55mph (~40mpg), so that's minimum forty bucks on gas a month.

[Aaron]

Yeah, Maybe the lines we should be worrying about will be at the induction centers.

[Specop_007]

I drive a diesel.
I may be waiting in line, but mine wont be as long as yours.

[DriveElectric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I') drive a diesel. I may be waiting in line, but mine wont be as long as yours.

[Cool Hand Linc]

Depending on what form of rationing occurs. I would fill my car up. Park it in my yard so my dogs could keep others siphon hoses away. Then I would siphon off the gas to use in my bike.

[BabyPeanut]

link excerpt:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')merica ’s most recent experience with rationing goes back to World War II. You have to be nearly 70 to remember the little square “A”, “B”, and “C” stickers affixed to the windshields of ever car. These stickers, when accompanied by a sheet of rationing stamps, allowed one to buy gas. Everybody got an “A” sticker (a whole 4 gallons a month just for the asking). To get a “B” or “C” sticker, one had to appear before a rationing board and make the case their mobility was vital to the war effort or at least the well-being of their fellow citizens.

[Sgs-Cruz]

I've seen this same reference in a lot of anti-Kyoto right-wing publications: Kyoto is impossible! The British are considering rationing just to meet it, we don't want that in the USA do we?

I just say, considering a plan does not equal implementing a plan. I'll bet every government has considered some plans that would make your blood boil, but never implemented them.