Hi Kendall! As gasoline runs out, the price will go up astronomically anyway. Supply and demand, and all that. Reducing demand is more likely to reduce the price, not increase it. Make no mistake, oil is running out. Even the USA is now using its strategic reserves. What happens when the reserves are gone (in less than 50 years at current consumption rates)? Oil companies run purely for profit may not be the best people to husband resources in the long run; inevitably, governments will have to step in, as happened in previous oil crises. 'Upholstered Roller Skates' are the future, I'm afraid, not irresponsible gas-guzzlers. (That principle applies in Europe just as much as it does in the US, by the way.)
I'm nobodies idea of an environmentalist, either; I enjoy cars as much as the next person, and I've owned some exotic and very thirsty machinery; but I can read figures, and the future doesn't look good at all for petrolheads.
Tim