Gas Prices

Aren't high enough, apparently. When it takes me nearly an hour to drive the ten miles from Irvine to Newport Beach, then I have no chance in hell of finding a parking spot, we clearly need more pain at the pump.

We're probably the only first world nation that doesn't tax gas heavily, and it shows. In the last seventy to eighty years we've managed to increase mpg efficiency by what...200%? That's preposterous. If any other industry demonstrated such a poor rate of improvement it would have gone out of business by now. What if computers were only three times as fast now as they were in the 80's? Think we'd still have a computer industry?

At five dollars a gallon, we might actually see a change in the way in which automaker's build autos and the manner in which people drive. Bring it on.