Hurray! It works on a Canadian mac! (The suggestions I had before didn't do it.)

but it plays automatically every time I open 1GM.

Hold on, is Johnny boy saying Bush was wrong about stopping the bill wouldn't change oil prices? Next thing you'll tell me the Iraq war didn't result in $20 barrel oil and the war cost more than $60 billion dollars. I can't buy your liberal hogwash even since we defeated the insurgents just days after Cheney said they were in their last throws those many years ago.

I think that $4 a gallon gas is the best thing that could happen to America but not the way it has panned out for us. We could have been taxing it at a much higher rate and using this windfall to build mass transit infrastructure. These new prices have already sent a clear message to the car industry that people now (fucking finally) want more efficient cars. Higher fuel prices will also have an influence on people's choices in housing. I predict a big swing back towards city living from suburbia. Republicans scream bloody murder at the mere mention of taxes but what is this new gas price but a tax levied by Exxon and friends?

On a global perspective, $ 4 a gallon is still a ridiculously low price. Here in Europe, I currently pay about $ 2,45 a litre. Which would be about $ 11 a gallon, if I'm not wrong?

I agree with leftbanker about the prices. I chuckle every time I see a douchebag with the "Support the troops" bumper sticker on his Escalade complain about gas prices. And I live in California, the highest average price is here, baby!

It has hit me too with my puny Civic (I don't have money for a Prius, but I want one), but I can live with it as long as all these people that buy big cars unnecessarily learn their lesson.

Strange, Bushco gets super wealthy, and the people that are really suffering are the people who can't afford it (if you've got the money, you're p@ssed but it doesn't really affect you and you've got a few cars to choose from anyway or you can run out and buy the Prius.)

As far as people who buy SUVs - I don't like it any better than anyone else but, I have some friends that drive them. Most have a couple of kids, maybe a dog, like to go on trips, and were really excited to get an SUV because it's made life simpler and more organized for them. They have two cars so need to use the SUV as one of their main modes of transportation. And, you know - I've bought things that don't fit in my car so I've asked one of them to help me. I'm not saying having an SUV is smart or the right thing to do (in fact, they all know I didn't like them) but I get why they ended up with one.

I just don't get the schadenfreude over the middle class being hit - yet again.

I was careful to say "unnecessarily." I also have friends who like SUVs and have one, and even some that don't even need it. I of course don't think they are douchebags, but hey, they're my friends, I might be biased!

Of course I don't get schadenfreude over the middle class being hit, only the "support the troops", gas-guzzling hypocrite crowd.

And anyway, not criticizing your friends particularly, but what's wrong with a 3-liter-or-smaller-engine minivan? I guess they're just so uncool. We gotta have 8-second acceleration on our 2.5 ton vehicles I guess.

I saw the unnecessarily but I can't take any pleasure in any of it. And, the "support the troops" ribbon bearers think this is the Democrats' (make that tree hugging liberal Democrats') fault for not letting us drill in ANWR because you know that would solve all our problems....

I think this is a scary, scary situation that, as leftbanker said, we are completely unprepared for...it's affecting the price of everything...and, the hogs at the trough (as Arianna would say) are making money hand over fist (and I don't know where I got that saying or even what it really means....)