Well, that’s not quite it. Actually, it’s even simpler: it runs on air, man! Zero Pollution Motors, a company based in New York, has recently gone public with its new “air car,” a vehicle which uses a combination of compressed air and other fuel – gasoline, ethanol, or vegetable oil, your choice – to achieve a gas mileage of up to 106 m.p.g. Uh, hello, there’s the solution to our fuel crisis. These cars are slated to roll out fairly soon – in 2010 – at a quite reasonable price of $18,000. Twice the gas mileage of the Toyota Prius and a few thousand dollars cheaper, too.

Really, though, that’s the solution to this gas crisis. Send demand plummeting, and prices will eventually go down. I’m no economist, but even I know a bit about supply and demand. And offshore drilling isn’t going to do anything – even on government-run webpages, it states clearly that it will only save Americans a few cents per gallon, and we wouldn’t even see those results for a few decades. I’m not sure why everyone’s ignoring this, it’s obviously factual, and it ought to be common knowledge. And honestly, even if you firmly believe that offshore drilling will save us all right now, you’ve got to realize that eventually, that supply is going to start running out as well. We need a backup plan. So buy a car that gets 106 miles per gallon, and there you go. It’s the same price as any other car, so you can’t very well whine about how they’re not accessible, or whatever. They are. Especially when you think about all the money you’ll save in the long run, because despite what politicians may want us all to believe, even if drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf is allowed, gas prices aren’t going to go anywhere near where they were in the ’90s. Or where they were in the early years of Bush’s presidency. Or even $3 a gallon.

So wake up, America, and buy an air car. Or… just walk. That’s even simpler. And walking may be better, actually, as that would solve the fuel crisis and our obesity epidemic. Two birds with one stone…