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Two Ways to Think About Gas Prices

Late in the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan advised voters how to think about their choice for president: "Ask yourself these questions: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to buy things in the store than it was four years ago?"

If that was the price-of-hamburger theory of campaigning, we might call 2008 the price-of-gas election. But I hope the candidates will ask voters to think a little differently this time around to think not only of ourselves, but of our neighbors.