Why gas needs to hit $10 a gallon
...Because people are dumb asses.
It's the old "boil-the-frog" story: as long as the price of gas goes up just enough to be uncomfortable each time but not excruciatingly painful, people will piss and moan for a few weeks, then continue to drive their Hummers and Lincoln Navigators.
<begin old-fart mode>I remember being in high school and paying thirty cents a gallon. After getting out of college, the first Energy Crisis hit. Gas sky-rocketed to a buck a gallon and it was as if the apocalypse had begun: odd and even day rationing, lines of cars snaking around the block, people generally convinced the fall of civilization was eminent.</end old-fart mode>
The way I look at it, if people in honkin' big pickups are still whizzing past me on the freeway during my morning commute, gas prices haven't gotten expensive enough.
I realize these outrageous prices affect me, too, but I feel a little like the woman who found the genie in the bottle and was told by the genie she could wish for anything but that her ex-husband got twice whatever she wished for.
After a few minutes thought, she said, "Beat me half to death."


