12.31.2008

WELL OIL BE

Holy smokes, Batman, even this conservative Republican oil exec sees the good of a higher gas tax: "This Oil Man Favors a Gas Tax." [Link courtesy of Greg Mankiw's blog.] How long will we let our addiction to cheap oil, big cars, and wide open spaces - swathed in patriotic terms to make them untouchable - keep us from doing sensible things to safeguard our future from an environmental, economic, and geopolitical standpoint?

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USA at 250

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