The combustion engine will be around for a long long time, it's too efficent. 4 dollar gas isn't the end of it all, it's a scam to rape us. We have oil in this country we haven't begun to tap yet, not to mention south america and canada. George W said yesterday that there was more oil in colordo shall, than in sudi arabia alone.All we need is some alternitive fuels to take the presure off of oil as the only source. Let the tree huggers and yuppies drive thier little electric cars and so fourth which will leave more oil for us and our V-8's. When there are more alternitives, the price will drop for oil as they will have to fight for your business against the other forms of energy. OPEC is allready freaking out and want the price of oil to drop, because they know that these high prices will accelerate alternitive fuel research and thier party is over. They want us to use oil for a long long time. There's at least a couple hundred years of oil reserves that we know of, so lets not panic. When we have other forms of energy, that 200 years of oil that we know of will strech to 500 years. And thats just the reserves we know of, there's still plenty more that we don't know of. I'm personally a big beliver in E-85, because by only using 15% oil and growing the other 85% can really strech a barrel of oil. I don't don't mean from corn either. I mean from saw grass, sugar beets, sugar cane or other sources. Corn is the worst thing to make E-85 out of as it's a source of food for people and livestock. When you have ample supplies of E-85, electric, bio diesel and hydrogen to name a few, there will be enough oil to swim in at decent prices. Were being pinched right now, but it won't last, so don't sell your V-8's just yet or write them off. What this will do, will make for a much more efficent V-8 a long with other gasoline engines, which is a good thing. It won't be long before we see 30 mpg V-8's at 400 hp. The question was ask, what difference it makes if it's a V-8 or a V-6 as long as it's high hp, I care. The V-8 is the standard that a muscle car lives by since it's inception, it's old school, it's tradition, but it's what it's all about. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Remember what your GT sounds like the next time a civic pulls up beside you and revs his engine, it's "sickening", is that what you want the future of muscle cars to sound like? The fast and the furious phase didn't stand the test of time, it allready dieing. The V-8 is still the king and has been for about 60 years since the first model T with a flat head V-8 rolled out of someone's shop and they called it a hot rod, "long may it live".
There is alot of oil to be had yet and 130/barrel is really going to shack it loose.
