As prices goes up for gas, the demand for alternative fuels/power will go up. Some have to look at it this way, the inflation of fuel prices vs. the inflation of everything else on the market. I have seen discussions before where they compared how much gas has went up in relation to everything else and that gas has not went up as bad as other things have, although I remember gas being under $1.00 a gallon within the last 5 years, so having the gas prices jump up double so quickly in some cases does put a hurt on people.