Incentives Matter: Road Trip Edition

"Americans drive less for first time in 25 years." Why? "Higher gas prices cut not only sales of SUVs, but also time spent on the road." Of course, plenty of luddite urban planners want gas to be more expensive so we all can live in high rises downtown next to the crack dealers.

12 Days of Christmas are more and more expensive. Hopefully since the Dems are in control, maids-a-milking can finally get paid a living wage. And who knew swans were so expensive?

Finally, at least Bush is doing something right this year. After causing all those hurricanes last year (with tons of help from capitalist pigs), "the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season ended with a whimper rather than a bang on Thursday, without a single hurricane hitting U.S. shores." But, maybe I shouldn't give him any credit. Since, after hurricanes or other disasters, plenty of people unknowingly committing the broken-window fallacy claim that the disaster will help the economy through repair purchases and rebuilding efforts. So, if there were no hurricanes this year, then Bush effectively robbed all of those would-be rebuilders. That's why global warming is good; more global warming = more storms = more rebuilding = prosperity, so buck the trend and get that car back on the road!