Never Mind a Gas Tax...

How Many Trucks/SUV's Did Bruce Jenner Sell This Weekend?
Talk about Incentives to Buy Big... his Escalade tapped the right rear of a Lexus, pushing it into traffic where it got creamed by a Hummer, killing the elderly woman driver inside.

Sadly, policymakers -- themselves often divorced from real-life daily decision-making -- believe that if gas costs more, people will be inclined to buy smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles to travel.

Then you see photos like those from this weekend's traffic aftermath.  Protection, people.

Societal inequalities are taxing, but often we overlook the results in reality, except when there's a celebrity or maybe a Lexus sedan involved...