“Al Gore came out with a movie called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in 2006, when Hummer sales were still good,” said Robert Barbera, the chief economist of ITG. “The inconvenient truth, in fact, is that prices are what matter. With gas prices soaring, Gore is going to get his collapse in Hummer sales, not because people went green, but because they wouldn’t spend the extra green to buy the gas.”

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It’s going to be driven by economics not politics. 3 out of 5 Times editorials this morning are about climate issues.