That woman could have been lying. She could have had her home-schooled kids do the deed.

"listen Billy and Jeffy, I have a new game for you, go get some eggs and throw them at mommy's big car"

They like to play the game of projection, you see. Claiming to be a "victim" when they are actually the perps.

jaybus, we get our mailbox baseball-batted regularly. Does that mean that the Posse Commitatus is after us for using government services?

There is a bill in California to potentially allow hybrids the ability to drive in HOV. If you were to listen to nutjobs like LA radio's Hugh "spew" Hewitt, you would think it was the end of the world to them if this were to happen.  

Hello Jack Greene,

The $60,000 Escalade guy was a pretty sad commentary on our society.  Everyone needs to picture living with ever-decreasing 'energy slaves' to do our bidding.

The American auto manufacturers are missing a golden opportunity to keep their workers employed by leapfrogging the Japanese in building super-efficient transportation and bicycles.  The Big Three should be lobbying the Govt to build railroad, mass-transit, and bicycle infrastructure where they will gear up for the manufacturing effort.  The Big Three, in the interim, could be building scooters, motorcycles, and this super-efficient car I found on Yahoo:

http://tinyurl.com/mqjwf
http://tinyurl.com/req3c
http://www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng/en-proj20/index.html

Most Americans, that are unfit to pedal a bicycle very far, can easily buy a small scooter to bridge the longer distances until their physical stamina levels rise.  Then they can save the investment in their large vehicles for bad weather days or when the entire family needs to go someplace together.

This is a peaceful method of adaption to using fewer energy slaves in a city with poor mass-transit, like Phx.  I fear postPeak gas prices will accelerate faster than local govts ability to purchase mass-transit leaving many people unable to get on overcrowded buses.  We don't need people fighting for a place in a busline, or fighting for a spot in a gasline to fuel their autos [as occurred in the '70s].

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

i had a jeep cherokee come up and ride my bumper today, as i was coasting down to a red light.  of couse it passes me (girl w/ a strarbucks glaring) on the right when a 3rd lane openned up on that side.  we then proceed to wait, both of us, for the green.  i wonder if it registered at all to those people that there was a red light like 10 car lenghts ahead?

Austin, actually. But the local paper's website also requires a sign-in, so I did a search for for the unobstructed column.

What I take as important is that Friedman says gasoline should cost more, not less. He says it should be $4/gal, which is a start. I agree with Westexas that it should be >$5. But at least it's a MSM mention of the idea.