That is true, but people start to agree with Republicans more when they personally affected. People don’t like spikes in the price of anything, especially gasoline.

Yeah as much of an environmentalist that I am, I don’t think prices surging that high in California (and the west coast in general, is my understanding) would be great from an environmental aspect. In the short term there would be some reduction in gas use, but I can imagine Republicans and other pouncing on this politically to roll back some environmental legislation.