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Gas too expensive? Be happy! Less work, less money, less traffic, and bonus–you’ll lose weight!

Barry noted back in June how he likes high oil prices, he just thinks it happened too fast. Now Time Magazine chimes reinforcing his message (which they will do throughout this campaign) that having no money, no freedom and no efficient way to get around is a Really Good Thing. It’s what I term the liberal agenda goal of “Failure Success.” Since liberals believe American activity and consumption are the root of all evil, high gas prices are a terrific, fast way to get us to stop producing. And spending. And caring. And working. And enjoying life. In other words, we’ll all be liberals.

10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas

The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs…Now here we are. Gas prices are near $4 per gal., as no one needs to tell you, and they are likely to stay that way. Most of us still don’t have the alternatives we need to adapt with grace, which means that many will adapt just by suffering. We will run out of gas on I-80, ease our minivans over to the shoulder and tell the kids everything is O.K. We’ll fall behind on Visa bills to pay for gas so we can buy food made ever more expensive by energy costs.

But it’s also true that Americans are finding options where there seemed to be none. They’re ready to change — and waiting for their infrastructure to catch up. They are driving to commuter-rail lines only to find there are no parking spots left. They are running fewer errands and dumping their SUVs. Public-transit use is at a 50-year high. Gas purchases are down 2% to 3%. And all those changes bring secondary, hard-earned benefits.

“You suddenly are reminded how the economy works,” says Eric Roston, author of a new book about energy, The Carbon Age. “Nobody wants high prices for oil. But there’s also no faster mechanism to change behavior.” The suffering will go on. But the story, like any good tragedy, is not without redemption.

Ah yes, forced by artificially high oil prices because liberals whined their way into demonizing drilling and refining American oil, and casting nuclear power as the devil, and now we have the Big Pay Off: Wasting more time, accomplishing less, and growing more reliant on government. Yes indeed, what a good tragedy they have in mind, as all liberals usually do.

Oh yeah, two of their Really Great Things About Getting Robbed At the Tank include “Four Day Work Weeks,” “Less Obesity,” and “Less Traffic.” In other words, we’ll be just like France. But hey, why stop at France? If we really screw up and destroy the country and our ability to produce and live the lives we want to live, why not go for the Jackpot of Failure and look at the Failure Success of, oh, Zimbabwe and Sudan! They have Zero Work Day Work Weeks, people are really thin (that starvation thing) and there’s no traffic at all (except for the various militias that come around the kill you). Yeah, now that’s a level of Failure Success weshould strive for!