Ever since we went to war in Iraq, I’ve been saying that the single best and most moral thing we could do to make things better in this country and around the world is to institute a dollar-a-gallon gasoline tax. Now, having lived through gas grices far higher than such a tax would push them now, the idea makes more sense than ever before: Reduced consumption of the foreign oil that has driven our foreign policy crazy, clear incentives for making and buying higher milage cars, less greenhouse gases, stimulation of more sustainable local economies, and revenues to pay down the cost of the wars (and the bailouts) themselves.

Now my intellectual hero, Thomas Friedman, is trying to get the rest of us to put pressure on the Obama administration to make this move while he has the economic crisis and the meltdown of Detroit to rationalize it for folks who can’t see the bigger picture.
Read his column (click here), think for fifteen seconds, and start spreading the word to your friends and relatives: Here is a sacrifice we can all make that will really make a difference…let’s make it happen!