I’m with you Jonah, but here’s the thing: We need to get something in return here. How about rolling back CAFE standards, especially the stupid “two-fleet rule” that prevents the Detroit three from importing the small cars they make overseas into the U.S. to meet their domestic-fleet fuel-efficiency requirements? How about eliminating all biofuel subsidies, on the grounds that if biofuels can’t make it on their own in a high-fuel-price environment, they don’t deserve taxpayer support? We’d also need some sort of reassurance that a higher gas tax (or carbon tax) would stand in lieu of any sort of cap-and-trade regime — otherwise we would probably end up with both.

If we could get rid of all the stupid laws that are supposedly necessary because gas is too cheap in this country, I’d be OK with raising the gas tax. I just don’t think that’s going to happen, though.