The thing is, guys, petrol is way too cheap in the US. Full stop. Those fools (not you, bike riders, but the avarege a-hole off the street!) over there are using waaaaaaaaaaay too much of it. To get them to change these idiotic habits, petrol prices (and muscle car + SUV prices) should shoot up much further, which would be good for everyone. Preferably by raising the taxes, so that it's not the petrol companies that benefit from it all.
An average Hungarian has to work more than an hour for the money that buys them 1 gallon of petrol (~5USD). That same time will be something like 15 minutes for Americans, I guess. So you can afford higher prices, that's for sure.