Letters to the Editor
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@djansing
Interesting observation.
I've believe I've observed something slightly different. I have noticed that, in the increasing number of articles about high gas prices, people talk about how they're learning to conserve by not just jumping in the car each and every time they think of one single item they need at the store across tone; instead, they wait until they have two or perhaps even three items to purchase before firing up the truck--but they talk about it in an aggrieved tone, as if it isn't something we should have to do. As if our birthright is everything we want.
Even worse, there's no indication that people are realizing how debilitating this excessive dependence we have on oil truly is. Whenever the government stops mistreating us and prices come back down, the articles imply, we'll be able to return to our more natural and blessed state of--let us not call it "wastefulness", but instead "carefree innocence and joyous youthful thinking".
We live in such a different world now than the one in which we were all encouraged to plant victory gardens to help win World War II, it's almost surreal.