Ah yes, now this is some logic:

In January 2007, gas prices were at a measly $2.17 a gallon. Since then they've skyrocketed to more than $4.

Considering the average amount of gas used per household, the rise has cost us approximately $1,690. With the average 42-inch plasma screen going for $975, just the extra cash you've forked over for gas in the last year and a half could have bought you 1.733 plasma TVs. And that number just keeps rising.

This stunning bit of bizarre logic means one thing!

President Bush and many Republicans argue that increasing domestic production of oil is the right strategy.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has become a recent convert to this philosophy as well; at least as far as offshore drilling is concerned. (His lack of support for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ANWR] is a distinction I can't understand. If we can drill safely without environmental harm under thousands of feet of water, why not on a small patch of ice in the middle of thousands of desolate square miles?)

And I bet Glenn Beck was one of those saying invading Iraq would be awesome for gas prices.

Here's a bit of math that works almost as well:

We've spent about $600 billion or thereabouts in Iraq so far and we're spending at a rate of another $150 billion annually. This is just pure budgetary layouts, I'm not talking about the "$3 Trillion Dollar War" stuff and all the other related factors.

There are about 80 million families in this country (a rough guess).

That's about $7,500 a family.


Granted, 80 Million of these would cause Global Melting...

This is a 60-Inch Pioneer Kuro, a 1080p plasma with "blacks" darker than Dick Cheney's soul.

Every family in America could have one of these suckers, and a nice 7.1 home theater system, a blue ray player, an X-Box and still have money to blow on the entire line of John McCain golf-apparel if George Bush hadn't invaded Iraq.

And tens of thousands of people would be alive.

Suck.on.that.