Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
So it is pretty much impossible to have both a rapidly growing economy and low gas prices at this point. So no matter what, people will have something to complain about . . . a bad economy or high gas prices.
Didn't we have this in the 90s?
Now some economists among you are saying "That's wrong . . . just pump more oil!" But we just don't have any new easy cheap supplies of more oil. In fact we have been using more oil each year than we have been discovering each year for the past 20 years. The only way out is to find substitutes . . . and we've been trying for some 40 years now. It is very very hard since oil is magic treasure . . . an extremely energy dense substance that you just dig out of the ground.
We could have tapped ANWR when we had the chance.
We could have built the Keystone XL when we had the chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjfssrKGsBU
And we could have been greatly encouraging nuclear power and battery tech. But apparently no one wanted to do that, either.