$4 a gallon gas - What does it mean to you?

I agree with above statement..  

What ticks me off is what real practical options are there? If you want a real fuel-miser, you have to get a dork-mobile Prius or a Civic hybrid, which have no balls. If you want to buy E85, you have to live in Minnesota or the Midwest somewhere where it's widely available, and now, with Diesel over $4 a gallon, that's not the "economical" option anymore either? All of these so-called "boutique" fuels like E85, M85, biodiesel, hydrogen, etc., are NOT widely available. And even where they are, they're no cheaper than the conventional choices. So it kind of seems we're screwed regardless, sometimes.  

I thought the more we as consumers used something the cheaper it would become. Not the case with oil.