MC, That's a whole different story. The "gas crisis" and the "mortgage crisis" are only relevant in the fact that they're going to cost the average American a hell of a lot more money. Gasoline is essential to the current American way of life. Because of our current dependence on oil, our lack of public transportation and our passion for suburban sprawl, we are slaves to our automobiles. Therefore, our need for alternative fuels is immediate.
As for the housing crisis, why should I have to bail out these morons who couldn't read the fine print on their mortgage paperwork? Oh, you didn't understand that a variable rate mortgage meant that the rate VARIES??? Oh, you didn't understand that it was OK to buy a house with 2% down, wait until an artificially inflated market gave you pretend equity that you then leveraged to buy another house with NOTHING down, and now you can't sell either one of them for enough to pay off you loans, and this is somehow MY fucking fault???
