What I meant was that our response to the inevitable rise in the price of gasoline will be that of a spoiled child. We are on the second or third generation of Americans who think The American Way of Life(TM)* is their God-given right. The neocons and the theocons have ridden to power on just that sort of delusional thinking. Their answer to everything is more tanks, more bombs, more guns.
*Loosely defined as More of Everything Than Everybody Else. Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?
