So gas is really expensive now. Did’ja notice?

I mean, apparently the President didn’t notice until he was told at a press conference two months ago. (His reaction: “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.”) But then he’s an arrogant dipshit who lives in a bubble, and can’t be expected to keep constant tabs on what the simple folk are coping with …

Oopsie, getting sidetracked by blinding anger.

The point is, if you are living a normal life in this Amurr’can nation, then you BY GOD know that the price of fuel is through the roof, only getting higher and raising the cost of absolutely every other product as a result. (That’s the thing about delivery trucks …)

So how could this possibly be construed as any kind of good thing? Well, MarketWatch has an 8-point list here which can pretty much be summed up by the statement “If we didn’t have a crisis, we’d never get off our asses, societally speaking.” And that’s probably right on the money. But a crisis we do have, and a zillion new solutions to our oil addiction are crawling out of the woodwork these days.

The Hummer is in its death throes, so Hallelujahs all around. There will probably always be SUVs on the road, but more and more of them are hybrids. And suddenly, Toyota Priuses (What’s the plural here? Prio? Prii?) are flying out of the dealerships, and they’re not just going to dirty, stinking hippies either.

But lets face it, in this new gas-conscious era, the Prius is only first-gen stuff. What comes next?

Well here’s a list of 30 up-and-coming electric cars that range from sporty, fast, awesome and bank-breaking (The Tesla, natch) to glorified golf carts (The GEM) to frikkin alien hovercraft (Aptera).

It’s a cool list, but it doesn’t take into account the latest development: inflatable cars.

That’s right. Blow it up, drive it away. Drive off a cliff if you like. It’s made of airbag. And fully electric and cheap and just plain cool in a geeky, silly, what-a-ludicrous-thing-boy-do-I want-that kind of way. Anything that makes the future more like a Tex Avery cartoon is alright by me.