Please raise your hand if you want to pay three bucks a gallon for gas?
If it means energy independence fromthe rest of the world and improved American security, a halt to a transfer of wealth to Arab Sheiks and the beginning of a transition away from a fuel source we know will run out anyway, you have my vote.
If you pay one third more, you can just use one third less and come out even.
Very few people need vehicles as large as they have. Moreover, technology being employed by the Japanese and Germans is now signficantly increasing fuel efficiency.
The rise of China will guarentee 3 dollar a gallon gasoline anyway. The question is whether 1 dollar of that gallon goes to the Saudis, or into the American treasury focused on increasing American self-reliance.