Carless New Yorker To America: High Gas Prices Are Awesome
I hate just to point and laugh, but when your piece for the New York Times Sunday Magazine begins:
Like a lot of carless New Yorkers, I am generally confused by bursts of populist outrage over high gas prices.
it's hard to do much else. The author says he's checked with a single economic study, determined that it's not rational to be outraged over gas prices, as large majorities of Americans are, and ends:
[T]he best possible future for most Americans may involve much higher gas prices. As billions of people, throughout the world, enter the middle class in the coming decades, there will be an enormous increase in the demand for gas. This, along with rising environmental considerations, is likely to send the prices far higher than they are today. But at that point, we will all probably be driving solar-powered hovercars anyway.
I'm pretty sure this was the same tune the media was singing about gas prices during the Bush presidency, right?
(h/t Jim Geraghty)
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Jun '10
Re: Carless New Yorker To America: High Gas Prices Are Awesome
The outrage of gas prices should show up at the grocery store before the ink is dry on the column. I'm sure Dave Carter will be happy to enlighten us on his increased costs, which always, by necessity, have to be passed on to consumers.
May '10
Re: Carless New Yorker To America: High Gas Prices Are Awesome
Couldn't you have paid tribute to that famous NY Post front page: Headless, Carless New Yorker Couldn't Care Less (or something...)?