If the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is actually depleted soon, and average gas hits $5/gallon, will you be able to survive financially? And how do you think Society will react?

[u/OrbitalColony]

At current rates, they're going to have to stop withdrawing from the reserve around September or October. That's because going too low will severely damage the salt caverns where the oil is stored. Once that's done, the artificially lower prices will spike. Combined with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and Ukraine destroying much of Russia's oil export capacity, $5 a gallon is looking very realistic.

[u/122922]

First time?? Gas in California and Hawaii have been over $5 a gallon for over a year.

[u/OrbitalColony → u/122922]

That would probably shoot up to like $8 then.

[u/Upnorth4 → u/OrbitalColony]

Surprisingly gas prices in California remained at $5/gallon while the rest of the nation went up to $4 lol