Hamsters Keep Turning the Wheel

The price of gasoline hit its lowest price ever (adjusted for inflation) last week in Minnesota. People are buying more SUVs and full-size pickup trucks again. Thus, this from Steve Sack at the Star Tribune:


If this were a sane country, we would have a carbon tax (or tax and dividend) program going, and we would take this opportunity to add a hefty fee to that low gas price as well. But we're not.