Comments on Hey, All You Naysayers!

Awesome.

Um, I thought there were only 24 percent deadender Red Bushies left?

It's the Y2K bug! We're all gonna die!

Still too expensive. (And I don't even drive.)

Thanks Hugo Chavez!

That's the not the price of gas, it's the going rate for the tears of war orphans.

editor's note:

The original truism actually reads:
"Bush's war for the World Bank"

Our shadowy backers insisted on the generic scapegoat wording - "oil"

This reminds me. Alan Greenspan is now advocating a gradually phased-in $3-a-gallon gas tax:

Energy has been a big interest for him – before the Fed, during his years there, and since. Why? The reasons were its scale and its overall impact on the economy, Dr. Greenspan replied. But, he said, “People are not aware of how fragile our tie to energy is. We have got to cut back on oil consumption in this country.” As the starting point, he advocated a $3 a gallon gasoline tax, similar to Europe, though phased in over a few years, with rebates to lower income families. He did indicate that he didn’t necessarily think it was very likely politically.

Of course, I think this is a promising idea, as long as it's gradually phased in. But instead of just providing rebates to low-income families, the mainstream advocates for this kind of tax say it should be revenue-neutral. And they are calling for just be a gas tax but a broader carbon tax, i.e. coal too.

More here: http://www.carbontax.org/

9/10 of a cent per gallon? An outrage!

I remember when you could get Ethyl for only 7/10ths....

Just a taste of what's to come when gasoline reaches $10.0090 per gallon...

late thursday night i went to buy a pack of cigs here and saw that while the most expensive and cheapest gas were normally priced, mid-grade was 92 cents. when i made a joke about the special low price, one of the clerks ran outside and got on his cell phone then thanked me profusely as i left. so thanks to me, you can all have free gas now. :-)