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It happened to me too 鈥� after getting used to $3.49 gas during my two weeks on the east coast, I find myself back in Seattle having to gas up on Capitol Hill at a station that doesn鈥檛 honor my points: $5.69 a gallon.

I understand the effects of Washington鈥檚 carbon tax, but as high as that is, it doesn鈥檛 explain a difference of $2.20 cents a gallon between there and here.

And yet, I鈥檓 driving home on 405 Sunday evening, and the prevailing speed is still above 65 miles an hour in most spots.聽 Sometimes it was 75.聽 And a few times I had to do 80 to keep up.聽聽 If people were really angry about the price of gas, you鈥檇 think they鈥檇 slow down a little.聽 We all know air resistance increases as the square of speed 鈥� you can鈥檛 repeal THAT law 鈥� but no one cares!

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We hate the carbon tax, but we鈥檙e happy to pay the leadfoot tax.

I understand if you drive for a living you have no choice, but I鈥檓 pretty sure most of us on 405 Sunday were not on a tight schedule 鈥� traffic was light, so we drove fast.

What keeps gas prices high is a combination of speed, the taxes, the longer distances we have to drive, and OPEC, which can cut its output when demand drops to keep prices up.聽 And of all those factors the one thing we can control any time we want to 鈥� is speed.

You can go ahead and blame the carbon tax, but the tax helps prove the point: even at $5 a gallon, the right foot is still in charge, and we鈥檙e still hooked.

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