Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
I agree, gas should be even more expensive, but that's assuming that the extra money would be used to pay for externalities of burning gasoline, and that we got the money back as tax cuts elsewhere. That would never happen.
Agreed. How exactly externalized costs get externalized in the first place and then stay that way to keep a populus fat and happy is something that would be a conspiracy if it weren't so institutionalized, and practically a birthright to its alleged beneficiaries.
Of course, I am happy with anything that has us collectively look at and then reduce our US per-capita energy footprint. High gas prices for any reason at all seems to have done the trick, but maybe this time it will stay with us.