Less pollution

High gas prices have done what legislation has failed to accomplish. Reduce pollution by getting people to think about their driving habits. Public transit is now running at an all time high and I would suspect bicycle sales are climbing. Here is an exerpt from CNN (I do not normally quote them but hey, WTF)
"The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded.
Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less -- that's 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT's Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history." Records have been kept since 1942.
According to AAA, for the first time since 2002, Americans said they were planning to drive less over the Memorial Day weekend than they did the year before. "
We are all carbon based lifeforms, ironically we now have the "carbon tax, carbon footprint, carbon credits, carbon management." These are all designed to keep you in line. We have had a 100 year run in driving a personal vehicle and let it control our lives. It is time to take a cold hard look at the situation. Now don't get me wrong, I do not think this Co2 has caused the Al Gory Story of global warming (Count Floyd from SCTV said reeeeeaaaaallllly scarrrrrry kids), but the bastards are now poised to cash in on this and stick us with the bill. "Bad consumer bad, bad bad, no gas for you! Now give us your money you fucked up the planet." This is a con job or more speciffically a NEO-CON job. DO NOT BELIEVE FOR ONE SECOND THE US GOVERNMENT'S CHICKEN LITTLE "THE SKY IS FALLING, WARMING, DIMMING, DEPLETING, ESCAPING TO SPACE). The truth is there is a natural cycle happening all the time, this has been going on for 4 billion years (6000 for the strange sect religious that feel we are a young planet. Whatever). Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury have all recorded higher temperatures in the last 100 years, so stop driving your Hummers, the Vesuvians are pissed and will invade unless you control your urge to go to Micky D'S for a grease burger. The impact that most do not see is the rise in the cost of commercial transportation. There is not one trucking company that does not institute a fuel surcharge, as the price of diesel goes up so does the fsc, this is passed on to the producers, shippers, retailers and eventually us. Everthing you buy in a store has been trucked at one time. Everything. The trucking industry delivers your food, clothing, furniture, computers, tv, stereo, ipod, booze, pet food, gardening, sporting goods, vehicles to the point of purchase. Then you pay the piper, end user, end of story. You might drive less but you still pay the price over and over. The "free market economy" is not free, speculators have driven the price of oil to these record highs not the supply and demand equation. It is time to re-invent the wheel. Shut down Wall Street.