What would happen if the price of gasoline were to suddenly rise to $100 the liter?

    Although you should probably ask Elias Gutierrez, I dare to speculate that the cost of driving to and from work (for example, Caguas <-> San Juan) would be the least of your worries.  As a highly "globalized" island, where so much of its activity occurs through imports and exports, the cost would immediately shut down Puerto Rico's economic engine.  Most of our food is actually imported, and the available reserves in supermarkets would last about two weeks.  Despite price gouging dominoeing throughout the economy, there would be a mad rush to the local supermarkets and shelves would quickly empty.  A week of intense activity would go by quickly, and desperation would begin to set in.  There would be a sudden move to the airports,  jam packed with people trying to leave the 'trap of death' that would become of the island.  The US will no longer care what happened to PR, given its own economic difficulties, and shut down all flights from Puerto Rico. Hugo Chavez might, in order to win allies worldwide, issue an offer of assistance, but then quickly retract it upon realizing the world-wide gravity of the situation.   The very rich would, out of self interest, board their own private planes to those areas of greatest security, only to find that the imagined security was but a brief vacation from an unflinching reality.   The government's already heavy financial burden would skyrocket into an unfeasible debt, and prevent it from taking any viable actions.  As we would sink into a doom of despair, we would begin asking questions such as, "why didn't we adopt those solar panels?",  "why didn't I install that wind turbine?", "why didn't we..."--all the time knowing that the time for action had passed and the only thing to do was just wait for the grim reaper.