Warren Brown

In short, [President Bush], it’s all fine and good to ask the car companies and other manufacturing and business enterprises to deliver more fuel-efficient products and services. It’s the right thing to preach against oil addiction. But it’s all relatively meaningless if no one in power does anything to wake American consumers from their pleasant dream of cheap oil forever.

To paraphrase my late father: Use your brains. The nation that is ignoring the poor now, when there is fuel to be had, will be even less inclined to pay attention to them if there is too little fuel available for everybody’s transportation and life-support needs.

There is no cheap gasoline.

Accept that.

Now get on with your Memorial Day weekend and summer travels, and have a good time.

I’m serious.