Well-done, both you and Megan McArdle. I’m be done shortly with a similar article I plan to print off and pass around my college on Tuesday.

You know what’s funny, though? Anyone could’ve seen this coming. If you’d have asked them about it beforehand, your average man on the street could’ve told you: “Dang, but oil prices are gonna go up after Katrina.” Yet here we are and everyone’s outraged. My Karate instructor began class by growling about the price-hike, received amens from his students.

“There ought to be a law,” they all said, as if they’d really somehow been blind-sided. A law with the ultimate purpose of doing what? Insuring them against having to think more than a day ahead?

I filled up my gas tank before the hurricane even hit and have so far successfully ducked the whole of the runaway hike. In order to preserve that gas, I’m now using a friend’s bicycle and my own two feet far more than I once did.

This is what people who take responsibility for themselves do: they adjust.

Adam