Who's ASSuming?

What did I assume… well, besides that you’d surely try to turn this discussion into some sort of ‘Conservative vs. Liberal’ thing?

Steve: You still don't get it, do you Strother? You've been so brainwashed by that liberal soup you inhabit... We could all give up our SUVs and jump in our carpools and ride the bus and join hands and sing kum-bah-yah and it won't make a dime's worth of difference to gas prices in the end… Idiot hippies can stomp around in their Birkenstocks with stern looks on their faces… Idiot, drooling, environmentalist retards have the ear of more drooling retards who happen to inhabit Congress, thereby eliminating oil-drilling offshore off of both left coasts and in some God-forsaken wasteland in Alaska…

And on, and on, and on.

Hey, man — you should really relax. The funny thing is that I’m actually on your side regarding this thread’s original topic… but I guess that’s not what you want, huh?

Well, let’s see. How do I explain this to someone who is so blindly determined to be disagreeable with me?

Not once have I insinuated that the government do anything about gas prices. As a matter of fact, I haven’t even mentioned the word ‘price’ in this entire thread. Not that it matters, though. I’m sure you’ll find some way to read what you’d like into what I have said.

If you can remember back to the beginning of the thread — originally entitled ‘Let ‘em Eat Sand’ — I was agreeing with Cal Thomas, who said, ‘It is going to take an enemy to break our oil addiction. The perfect enemy is the oil-producing states with a track record for funding terrorism and whose brand of religion produces young fanatics determined to destroy the West.’

Of course, there are plenty of other great reasons to consume less gas, but hey — any additional motivation is good and may be necessary to get Americans to stop and think for a second.

The answer is to find another way to support our mobility.

And if, as you say, there’s truly nothing that can be done about gas prices (there, I said the p-word), a good, simple way for consumers to combat this trend is to buy more efficient cars. If so, we could start buying less oil from these questionable sources immediately and auto manufacturers would build more fuel-efficient cars. After all — as Thomas illustrated — if we could fly to the moon decades ago, we could surely drive SUVs that get better than 35-40MPG.

MTV is brain candy to at least three generations of television-addicted Americans. You can jump down off your high horse now.

High horse? Hey, you brought up this MTV thing, Steve! (And as an aside, I don’t know anyone over the age of 20 who actually watches that network.)

I do realize why you brought it up, though: you’d prefer to think that those contributing to most of the problems in America are simply products of degenerate, Liberal programming of various types and from various mediums — an easy, typical target of those who frequently use stereotypes and wedges to make points.

But in the case of buying oil from those who fund terrorist regimes, even patriotic, well-intentioned, and otherwise good Americans are guilty as charged. That includes you, me, and most every MTV and/or FOX News viewer in the nation.