Oil won't match 1981 prices until it hits $98/barrel.
Even then, oil cost twice as great a percentage of household income in 1981 as it does today.

I see no fewer SUV's and macho-image pickup trucks today, because of higher gas prices, than I did before.

As for alcohol as a fuel, it costs us much more environmentally than does oil.

No, if we want to promote bicycle riding, we need to find something more persuasive than the price of oil.
The price of oil doesn't have the effect we'd like it to have.

I tell people if they'd ride a bike for two weeks, they'd never get back in a car, and I mean it.

I wish I could hold up some sort of spiritual and mental-health mirror in which SUV drivers could see themselves.
I think they'd stop driving out of sheer embarrassment.