This sounds like a great plan! Bush gets to lower the standards for the cars we make and the American consumers who are demanding more efficient vehicles will buy foreign cars. This has been proven to to do wonders for our automotive industry.

Also the oil industry's profits will continue to soar with the continued demand for oil and our nations failure to invest any real effort into our next generations energy needs.

I should also mention how much the drug companies profit by all the disease caused by environmental pollution and poisoning, not to mention the mere existance of petrochemicals in our daily lives.

It's time the people of this nation realize that the oil economy standard has got to go. Our country needs to put forth an effort like that seen during the world wars and the manned missions to the moon. A dedicated concentrated effort to make it happen. With the tremendous profits that oil companies are making, a windfall tax could make that happen within a decade.

Bush should stage a photo op of himself hanging around a gas station in the manner of Benito Mussolini.

War Room writes: "George W. Bush has a plan to address the staggeringly high prices Americans are paying at the pump..."

You think *you* pay "staggeringly high" gas prices?!

If you believe gaspricewatch.com, the average US pump price is $2.91 per gallon.

Here in deepest, darkest Buckinghamshire, England, 25 miles from central London, the rough average price at the pumps is £0.90 per litre, based solely on observation of the prices posted around local stations.

At 3.79 litres to the US gallon, that's £3.41 per gallon and at the current spot rate from CNN of $1.82 to the UK pound sterling, we can estimate the current average UK pump price to be $6.21 per gallon.

That's more than double what you're paying now.

I've been beating the "if we had to pay the true cost of our gasoline we'd have prices like Britain" drum for years. If we'd been paying the real costs all along, we'd have gotten serious about alternative and sustainable sources sooner and then maybe we wouldn't be in so much trouble now.

High gas prices mean I can't go visit my grandkids (150 miles away) as often as I'd like. Sure, I miss them like crazy, but my loneliness is nothing compared to the fear I feel for their futures.

If higher gas prices now mean that my grandchildren and their grandchildren will have a chance at a cleaner and more sustainable energy future, then bring 'em on.

We all have to be willing to make some sacrifices, or we are well and truly screwed.