Sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog duties – new baby, bitch grad classes, and general lethargy. Briefly, I just have to say that it is time for the government to man up and tax gas – drastically. As oil approaches a measly $40 a barrel, and gas creeps down to a buck-fifty, it is crucial that nobody gets any funny ideas. You know, funny ideas like oil must not be as valuable now so why conserve? Funny ideas like MPG is less important in a car than heated seats. American oil usage went down for the first time ever since 2007, and we need to keep it that way. We Americans can live with $2.00 – think about how much +/- fifty cents a gallon can go towards investing in alternative energy and our infrastructure. It reminds me to a much lesser extent of tobacco tax – pissing oil is bad for us as a country, so we should have to pay for it.

Also, give the mother f*cking car companies their money. $15 billion is 1.5 months in Iraq. That is 2% of the money we are throwing at the financial sector with no strings attached. It is only 13 days of Shell profits, for crissakes. Just do it.