It’s Cars That Done It – billmckibben.substack.com
Bill McKibben
For the second time in my lifetime, we’re about to make a crucial political mistake as a nation based on high gas prices. In 1980, after the oil shocks and gas lines of the previous decade, we elected Ronald Reagan, ushering in forty years of a world where “government is the problem, not the solution”—and therefore ushering in ecological crisis, cartoonish inequality, and racial backsliding. And now, even as the January 6 hearings definitively uncover the rot at the core of the Republican party, we’re about to return them to control of Congress mostly because gas is five bucks a gallon.