Quote Originally Posted by Punish_her View Post
no politician can do anything about it. no single entitty can. gas prices (as well as rising food prices) are primarily the result of skyrocketing demand from emerging economies.
And every futurologist worth the name has been warning us for fifty years that this was inevitably coming, but people went right on as if every gas price hike was a passing blip. Because any politician who told the truth about what had to be done would have been out of office before the mobs had finished yelling in the street. Now reality is knocking at the door, we have to try to do in a year or two what we should have been working on for decades, and it's not going to work.

Same as global warming: when the sea laps over Long Island people will ask the government "Why didn't you do something?" and the answer will be "Because you voted against anyone who tried."