It should be pretty obvious that the human race should be well underway in the effort to develop new sources for energy as well asd strategies for using the energy sources we currently have. There are historical forces moving in a constructive direction regardig these matters, but these forces are terribly underrepresented in the US Government right now.

GWB may not be personally responsible for the current squeeze, and things might not be too much better under any mainsteam "Republicat" President, BUT: Bush has certainly done everything in his power to favor the corporate interests most strongly committed to maintaining the most wasteful and inequitable aspects of the status quo.

Fellow Americans: don't expect too much sympathy from our overseas friends. Motorists in the UK and throughout Europe have been paying the equivalent of about four dollars a gallon for years. We're all in shock to see the price jump so suddenly from a dollar and a quarter all the way up to two and a half, but we're still getting off relatively cheaply, believe it or not.