Cheap oil will soon be over.  I'm hoping it will crush the military-industrial-warmaking complex, agribusiness, and our rediculous economy that is based on selling cheap trinkets to each other.  People act like we have so much to lose but I think we have so much to gain.  Baby Boomers have been working their entire lives to export all types of meaningful labor and employment to China and Mexico.  Now their kids are stuck in "retail," selling cheap painted trinkets (from China) in some stupid soulless mall with bad food and mindless people.  But if those mindless people wake up, stop shopping, stop watching TV (just stop consuming in general) and get back to producing things with real value, I think the world will be a better place.  

Bring on the $6 gas.  In two years it'll be $8.  The government can placate you for now with half-baked ideas but eventually they're going to have to give up on keeping this "way of life" going.  Bailing out corrupt financial industries and subsidizing fuel...how is this any different than the dole system before the Roman Empire fell?  Well, if barbarians start pouring over our walls, I'm going to grow my beard out and join them!

That hurricane must have been quiet a bit worse than we were expecting. :)