[arzig]

It’s been a month. Not long enough for a trend. Every time gas prices spike these celebratory pieces come out and then when gas prices drop at the end the consumer markets revealed preferences are made bare again. Let’s find out if this can sustain for more than a year after gas prices drop.

[macintux]

Last time gas spiked above $4/gallon nationally people were trading in their huge gas guzzlers at an extreme loss (because no one else wanted them either). I read an article about someone who was contemplating losing $30k on their trade-in instead of continuing to pay high gas prices.

(I don't know what my point is, just that people have short memories, and are generally speaking not rational about purchases, or money in general.)

[jimbokun]

The trend has existed especially outside the US for several years now, this is just an acceleration of that trend.