GASOLINE PRICE HIKES, MEET BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY

As gasoline prices rise, the first thing our lovely bourgeois democracy does to deal with the fallout is to put downward pressure on gasoline taxes

Democrats called for a 60-day halt on collecting federal gasoline taxes, which are 18.4 cents a gallon...

so much for the theory that the solution to American gas-hogging was that the government could impose higher gas taxes in the US, thus "forcing everyone to conserve"... When will American environmentalists give up their love-affair with capitalism?