[subterfuge]

If you can't affort the gas drive and whine less. Give up beer, cigarettes, eating out, and lotto tickets if you don't want to drive less.

Yeah, just let the middle-east and the enviro wackos call the shots. Pretty soon, we'll all be eating crackers and beans (not an illegal immigration barb, I swear) to pay for gas. Oh, except for Babs, Teddy, Horhay Clooney and the 'TOons.

We're on the road to surfdom alright!

[from occupied ga]

and the enviro wackos call the shots

Almost right - I'd phrase it shoot the envirowackos.