they are preparing us for $5 gasoline.
And/or gas lines...
The bastards.
Gasoline that is $5 or $6 a gallon may actually turn out to be a very good thing. The american public has been sympathetic to the overreaching environmentalists - sympathetic enough that politicians did not dare to cross them.
The American people will not sit still for gas prices that are $5 or $6 per gallon however. This will be the chance to demonstrate that our nation is in a very bad situation with it comes to energy.
I don't have any faith at all in Bush or the GOP senate, but this should be enough for them to push for more drilling, suspension of draconian laws that prevent new refineries and the building of nuclear power plants.