Gee whiz, I've known that for as long as I've been driving. Well, after the prices went back above $1-gal anyhow. The tree-huggers will not let anyone build new refineries in the U.S. so we have no way to increase our capacity and must depend on other countries to refine. Well, tree huggers want expensive gas, but then they complain when the price of food, milk, or other goods goes up. Well duh! Higher energy prices means higher prices for anything that makes use of that energy along the way to your home. We have an excellent alternative to some of the greatest polluters, traditional coil and oil power plants (much worse than cars). Nuclear power. Of course the tree huggers won't allow that either. News flash, we can't go from where we are now to zero pollution, ever. We can reduce pollution and our dependence on fossil fuels, but it's a gradual process. The next logical step to reduce fossil fuel demand and consumption is to build more nuclear power plants.
There are two issues at hand here.. Fossil fuel consumption and pollution. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Tree huggers complaining about how much gas cars use but then they complain about pollution and pbutt legislation on automobile emissions that necessitate emissions control measures that reduce mileage. Anyhow, I'm done with my mini-rant about tree-huggers, I don't feel like going on all night about this.
Cory
