UNDER MY PLAN, ENERGY COSTS WILL NECESSARY SKYROCKET: California gas prices set record yesterday.

Plus – two papers in one; the above L.A. Times article tries to explain to readers why they’re paying so much for gas. But in 2008, the paper ran an article from then-regular columnist Joel Stein (he of the “I don’t support our troops” fame), expounding on “The joy of $8.00 gas.”

Less than $3.50 to go now in California to reach those European level prices that both the L.A. Times and Obama’s energy secretary desired back then.