Stay home, read, have sex Will insane gas prices finally pummel us into evolving? How bad will it g


	Stay home, read, have sex Will insane gas prices finally pummel us into evolving? How bad will it g

papananook

6-4-2008 12:43 PM

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papananook says:

another good column from Mark Morford.

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6-4-2008 1:24 PM

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And yet most car commercials are all about selling sexy, powerful beasts, dripping in chrome. Luxury and speeding on open roads have yet to give way to efficiency.

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