Boys and girls: Gas was $3.13 today. That's how you win elections, damn it!

[hunter]

12. Sadly, most people still don't give a damn about global warming.

At best they are in the bargaining phase of their grief over the loss of the natural environment our species evolved in.

Hey universe, maybe if I put up some solar panels and wind turbines?

We might have saved ourselves by banning fossil fuels starting in the 'seventies, eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels entirely by the turn of the century.

Alas, our exploitation of fossil fuels is only increasing. The U.S.A. is extracting more oil and gas than it ever has and we are celebrating that.

I know what the political realities are. A promise to ban fossil fuels isn't going to win elections.

So here we are. The best we can hope for, as the oceans rise and the climate becomes more dangerous and chaotic, is government that respects human rights. That's why I enthusiastically support the Biden administration and Democrats. It has nothing to do with the price of gasoline.

Personally, the price of gasoline means little to me. For most of my adult life I've been able to avoid the car commuter lifestyle. Even when I was in my early twenties, I could fill the tank of my little car for less than an hour's wages. At my lowest point, when I was homeless and unemployed, living in my broken car and later a garden shed in the backyard of a PTSD Vietnam war veteran, I wasn't buying gasoline anyways.