At least out west we don't have toll roads. No such things as turnpikes around here. You guys on the east coast and midwest get the double whammy.
The most radical enviros are delighted with the fuel crisis because it forces massive societal change on us. For years we've heard them say that we don't pay enough for gas, and they cite Europe to back that up. Gore told us in Earth in the Balance that the internal combustion engine is "mankind's greatest enemy". And now they have manufactured climate change alarmism as the perfect lever to reorder the world's economies according to their priorities.
To a very large extent, our problems are self-inflicted.
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