Celebrate National Four Dollar Day

Our children and grandchildren will look back with gratitude on the year 2008 when gasoline hit $4 / gallon in the US.  Four Dollar Day will be a national holiday, a new Independence Day when Americans celebrate the beginning of the end of our petroleum bondage.

They'll remember 2008 fondly as the year when:

 - Americans started driving less.
 - CO2 emissions began to decline.
 - US economic dependency on the Middle East diminished.
 - Globalization slowed down due to higher shipping costs.
 - Americans started walking and biking.
 - Obesity began to decline.
 - Urban sprawl stopped as commute patterns changed.
 - Crime began to decline as city neighborhoods grew stronger.
 - Sales of dangerous, gas guzzling SUVs plummeted.
 - Traffic accidents and fatalities declined sharply.
 - Influence of oil lobbyists in Washington began to wane.
 - Global warming slowed down.
 - America started building wind and solar energy farms.
 - Cost of maintaining roads, highways, & bridges began to ease.
 - Detroit developed truly fuel efficient cars.
 - Cities invested in mass transit.
 - America resolved never again to shed our soldiers' blood for oil.