today, clinton likened herself to a fairy tale character, but most coverage i've seen hasn't picked up on this gem:

guess what? we are going to expect you to move toward higher gas mileage cars. we just don't have enough of them that are affordable enough for everybody to be able to do it right now.

i liken that to something from a fairy tale. the internet has my back on this one:

i know this is not a fully scientific survey, but it clearly shows that, in fact, the opposite of what clinton says is true: fuel-efficient cars are more affordable than gas guzzlers. i don't know exactly what it means for the Yaris to be over twenty times more fuel-cost efficient as the M6, but fortunately that's not something clinton wants you to be concerned about "right now."

the only way to reduce america's financial burden of oil is to stop needing it. what does a gallon of whale oil cost these days? the answer is nobody cares. the sooner politicians stop trying to win votes by making people think it's still ok for them to drive cars everywhere, the sooner, well, i don't even know what. but it will be a good thing.

at any rate, perhaps in a couple of weeks the mainstream media will pick up on this one too, as they finally have with the gas-tax holiday, which i broke long ago.

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