Rush Limbaugh used a quotation of mine in TIME magazine to express his abiding affection for petro-terrorism.



The story begins rather innocently, with writer Amanda Ripley punctuating her introduction with this quotation:

"But it's also true that Americans are finding options where there seemed to be none. They're ready to change — and waiting for their infrastructure to catch up. They are driving to commuter-rail lines only to find there are no parking spots left. They are running fewer errands and dumping their SUVs. Public-transit use is at a 50-year high. Gas purchases are down 2% to 3%. And all those changes bring secondary, hard-earned benefits.

"'You suddenly are reminded how the economy works,' says Eric Roston, author of a new book about energy, The Carbon Age. 'Nobody wants high prices for oil. But there's also no faster mechanism to change behavior.' The suffering will go on. But the story, like any good tragedy, is not without redemption."

"Now, here, in the final paragraph, is the real reason for writing this story. "Eric Roston, author of a new book about energy, The Carbon Age, says, 'You suddenly are reminded how the economy works. Nobody wants high prices for oil. But there's also no faster mechanism to change behavior.' The suffering will go on. But the story, like any good tragedy, is not without redemption." This is TIME Magazine, Amanda Ripley. And so what's the great thing about gas prices going up? You pigs will change your behavior. You unrepentant energy pigs will change your behavior, and you'll get on the rotten, unreliable mass transit, if you have any. Otherwise you'll find a job where you can ride your bicycle to like these brilliant Europeans. But you are an unrepentant energy pig, and it's about time your behavior changed, and thank God for four-dollar gasoline to do that.

So here we have the arrogance and the elitism and the snobbery of the Drive-By Media and their noted experts in a short little piece, "10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas," and it's all predicated on the fact that you are pig, that you are guilty, that you deserve to suffer, but there is redemption. And so we're happy for high prices in energy 'cause you are going to change your behavior, 'cause you are destroying the planet, you are greedy, you are this, you are that. Hello global warming. This is a microcosm. The same kind of arrogant, snob effetes want to tell you how to live 'cause you're too stupid to know how to live right. And when you are too stupid, and don't live the way they want you to live, then you embarrass them in the eyes of the Europeans. And our elite, effete-snob Drive-By Media leftists and other leftists do not want to be embarrassed in the eyes of the Europeans! So you, you worthless shreds of human debris, we're going to change your behavior -- because you're too stupid to live in a way that won't embarrass the elites."