The only thing keeping gas prices as low as they are (Yeah, I know, it doesn't seem "Low") is economic stagnation depressing demand, as soon as the economy starts moving at all, they'll go up drastically, possibly that has already started. It'll be a race between growth and depressive effect of spiking energy prices to see whether the economic recovery starts substantially speeding up, or stalls out due to rapid price rises in everything that requires energy, i.e., everything (Which so far has been a 'Recovery' mostly in the technical sense used by economists, not what Main Street would call a 'Recovery').