Whining at the Pump

I thought this op ed about gas prices was interesting:

http://www.slate.com/id/2191491/

There's also this historical data collected by one driver over the course of many years, for those of you who like graphs and math and that sort of thing:

http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html

This past week's Doctor Who episode (well, this week according to BBCA) featured an invention that reduces carbon emissions on a car to zero. As the Doctor quickly points out - how stupid, you'll run through oil supplies in no time with such a ridiculous device. Those aliens - always showing us up.