GASPRIC4.CBS 03/07/05 8:52 AM-DLR   1:27
Getting gouged and lovin' it!  This is Dave Ross on the CBS Radio Network.
In the next few days, so the warning goes, gas prices could jump by 24 cents a gallon.  
That would put them way beyond $2.00, annihilating last year's record.
And from the Triple-A came this prediction:
SPOKESMAN:  "The discretionary driving may be what we limit, going to Aunt Martha's on the weekend, this type of thing."
That's right - this guy from the Triple-A thinks Americans are going to limit their discretionary driving.
Is that really true, America?  Are we going to let gas prices tell us how much we drive?
I'm sorry, but that's not the America I know.
The America I know, when gas prices go up, cuts up its credit cards.  Holds Congressional hearings to get to the bottom of the conspiracy.  The America I know CERTAINLY doesn't let a little thing like $2 gas limit its discretionary driving.   The America I know doesn't let ANYTHING limit its discretionary driving.
In fact, the America I know doesn't let anything limit its INDISCRETIONARY driving.  If we felt like drag racing at midnight when gas was a buck fifty, we're darn well gonna do it at $2.
You mean to tell me that the same America that defied the cries of global warming, that stood firm against those sissy Europeans and their Kyoto Protocols is suddenly going to blow off Aunt Martha because of gas prices?
Are we gonna let $2 gas, turn us into a bunch of jelly-bean driving BLUE STATES?  Are we going to tell Aunt Martha, "No, I can't visit this week, gas prices are just too high."  
Forget it.  These colors don't run, my friend - they DRIVE, by God, and they drive wherever they want.  Unless gas hits $3, and then we'll pewl like frightened puppies. 
Now this. ~C:\works\files\GASPRIC4.CBS