I live in the Newport beach area and irvine are in California, so it isn't that bad with the miles per gallon becuase the speed limit on normal streets is about 50 miles per hour, maybe the same in your area too and i take free way sometimes to get to the other side of the city so at leat it adds more miles per gallon. Yeah, it really sucks paying for gas and since i sometimes drive to my home from my apt it adds more miles and i try to get gas at my home where it is around 2.00 per gallon, but it still sucks.
Bush will probably have his way anyway, and gas prices will slowly go up when we go to war. blah.,