IN CONNECTION WITH THE POST ON SUVs, BELOW, here’s an interesting chart: “The following plot shows how much I paid for each gallon of gas I bought over the past 26 years or so. . . . The upper, black curve shows the actual price paid for each gallon. The lower curve is the data adjusted for inflation using April, 1979 as the datum.”

Of course, as Nick Gillespie has suggested, if we’re worried about people wasting fuel we should ban private jets. But what would Arianna say?