If you think your pocketbook or wallet is hurting from the $4 per gallon gasoline that you have been buying recently, hang on to your butts. According to a Rice University study down in H-town, the U.S. could end up with gas costing over $6 per gallon if oil hits $200 a barrel.

Wow.

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We have a loose and unwritten rule here at S&P that we generally don’t post things from screaming extremists who add little to intelligent discourse. This rule can be called the “Ann Coulter Rule,” but it also applies to the likes of Maureen Dowd, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore, etc. But, I’m going to break that rule today, because I think Maureen Dowd has a great column today worth reading on “stealing” words in campaigns.(Subsequently, after I started writing this, I realized that another S&P blogger had recently written a great entry regarding Rush Limbaugh that was so well done no one noticed he had broken the Ann Coulter Rule.) Take a look at Dowd’s column, which appropriately points out how ridiculous Hillary and her minions like Wolfson sound when they scream and shout and jump up and down about Obama using Deval Patrick’s words in his speech.

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