It is no secret that this observer finds something fundamental about the state of the American political system in its inability to address energy issues in a meaningful way and in the national interest.  Columnist Rich Lowry addresses some reasons why this is so:

The price of everything, not just driving, is going up in the era of $130-a-barrel oil, but our presidential candidates have a hopelessly thumbless grasp of pocketbook politics. Their mutual slogan could be "Let them eat abstractions."

Read the whole thing for why he thinks this is so and for why he sees John McCain on this issue " fumbling away the GOP's best domestic political opening in years. "