I don't think you can say by buying gas today I support oil at 140 a barrel. What is water worth? What is air worth? Face it, in 98 percent of the US, people need to drive. Maybe in ten years they'll replace the street cars that were torn up in Ft. Worth 50 years ago but today, next week and next year, folks have to drive. So they cut back on other stuff.

I think drawing out of the SPR is the same as the gas tax holiday. Seventeen days later you're in the same situation with only half the emergency reserve. We can't just postpone the problem, we have to change the way we've lived since the end of World War 2.