Americans drove 4.5 billion fewer miles in April. How ’bout that. Economics works! If you really want to change habits, let the market-driven rise in the cost of gas force people to drive less, and force energy companies to come up with new and more efficient ways of getting us around. Of course, politicians don’t trust markets. So they’ll find ways to artificially lower gas prices while simultaneously bemoaning “our dependence on oil.”
--Radley Balko, who also points out this Penny Arcade post about snacks designed to look like Legos (a lawsuit waiting to happen!)