Fmr. Shell president ‘predicting’ $5-a-gallon gas in 2012 | Raw Story

I’m not surprised and fully expect this to happen.

Too bad the Government is taking more pr0-active steps to encourage alternative energy, better mass transit, higher gas mileage cars and tax incentives to purchase  hybrid auto’s.

All these steps would also help grow the economy and create jobs…

Epic failure of leadership in Washington…

The former president of Shell Oil said he believes Americans could be paying $5 for a gallon a gas by 2012.

“I’m predicting actually the worst outcome over the next two years which takes us to 2012 with higher gasoline prices,” John Hofmeister said in a recent interview with Platts Energy Week television.

Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with Oil Price Information Service, agreed that Americans would see $5 a gallon gas but told CNN that he did not believe it would happen in 2012. “That wolf is out there and it’s going to be at the door…I agree with him that we’ll see those numbers at some point this decade but not yet.”

“The demand is still sluggish enough in some of the mature economies,” he said.

Hofmeister also predicted that demand would outstrip supply before the end of the decade.

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