Stay the fuck off the road, money...

Walnuts McCain dropped another banger today. Speech on... well, I dunno, really. Purportedly on some means to jumpstart the economy. Democrats characterized as tax and spenders, blow money on monuments to Woodstock guarded by black separatist revolutionary communists or somesuch. "Oh, they'll build a wall around our economy and stop the free flow of... und so weiter."

So mostly it was the usual claptrap. But, as Salon's Andrew Leonard points out, the central point of the speech seems to be the alleviation of the gasoline tax for the summer. Now, of course, this is a short term measure meant to provide a short term boost for the economy. But, really, where's the presidential candidate who will tell the American people what they really don' wanna hear?

That cheap oil ain't comin' back. Me and you, we're old enough fogies to remember fillin' up the parents' cars after a night downtown with whatever change was left on us coming back from the coffee shop. Them days is done and done. China's on pace to consume ten million barrels a day by 2025, and... doesn't India have sub-2000 dollar cars?

All that's to say, we're not getting back to a "comfortable" price per gallon in the foreseeable future. Sure, there's some dissenters, but even they won't go so far as to say we're going back to anything anywhere close to what Americans think they're entitled to pay. And even if his little gas tax cut work, it wouldn't help. Taxes account for only--what?--fifteen percent of the cost of a gallon? Sheeeeeit. It costs my ass forty bucks to fill up my Focus here in Cville. That's gonna save me six bucks. Woo. That's not gas price relief. That's a pack of cigarettes and a twenty-two of Pilsner Urqell.

So one of the candidates needs to tell Americans to sit back and observe where they at. Or, more pointedly: "Stay the fuck off the road, money." Walk your fat ass to the bus stop. Solves our fuel problem and our obesity epidemic at the same time. Or bike. Or at least buy a more fuel efficient car. And we need the car companies making better cars. Why does this seem so easy to me? Reinvestment in national infrastructure, focused effort to wean ourselves from oil. These things will create jobs and drive our economy into the future. If the Dems run on the future, being the party of the future, there's no way Walnuts stands a chance. Hell, there's even room for Clinton on the ticket in that case (in the veep slot). She's the extension of the Bridge to the 21st Century. And BarryHussein is the other side of that bridge.