People just don’t understand

The only way we can curb oil consumption (and subsequently, carbon emissions) is by increasing the price of consuming oil. Period.

The NYtimes has now reported that Hillary Clinton has sided with John McCain in advocating his terrifyingly stupid idea of removing the federal gasoline tax during the peak-travel summer months.

You can either have cheap gas and make everyone happy until we have a planet suffocated by global warming, or you can incorporate the external costs of consuming oil (through taxation), raising the price of gasoline and making some people less-happy.

Yes, some people will no longer be able to avoid their cross-country car-trips, but that’s kind of the point isn’t it?