So, who thinks the oil prices will rise on Monday morning?

[Journeyman]

1. It's not so much the cost as the availability which will critically impact everyone . . .

$5, $6, or even more, people will curse loudly and vow to vote in November, but they'll pay it and absorb the impact.

But if gas is in desperately short supply, and becomes rationed, people will curse, but they'll also move to get relief. A huge upswelling of anger will accompany any announcement of a rationing plan. Here in California, in the ’70s, we were restricted in our buying to even or odd days, based on our license plates. Cars queued in lines blocks long waiting to get into gas stations, only to be turned away after a wait of hours when the station ran out of gas. Anger was palpable. I can only imagine how it will go today, when guns are even more widely available and tempers are at short fuse.

And a word of caution: The gas queues happen suddenly, without warning.