Former oil executive: Expect $5 gas in 2012 – Trending – Salon.com.

And expect the fight for “gas tax” to be contentious. Too bad lobbyists buy our politicians to make them profit from a unsustainable system of transportation. Prices like these begin to reflect the real cost of petrol to the consumer — long shrowded by subsidies. The subsidies haven’t disappeared, however…this is just capitalism.