Recession and Traffic

Wednesday and Thursday of this week were easily the worst traffic in my recent memory. I think more people are back to work. I think the recession is lifting and making traffic bad. That is my theory. And it makes me miss the recession.

In other news, gas prices are also creeping rather high. Can we blame the War in Iraq for this? Is this Bush's fault? I just remember high gas prices being Bush's fault while he was in office, so it isn't clear to me whose fault they are now.