Of the many ways President George Bush has proved himself a clueless commander-in-chief, his recent comments about rising prices gas tops them all.

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He's a former oil man with all of industry at his feet. How could he not know about the widespread predictions of gas prices hitting $4 this summer? Yet it's what he told a CBS newsman, who asked him how he'd advise the average American to cope with the increase: "You're predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline? ... Oh yeah? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.'' (Read more about the exchange here)

Leaving Bush's comments aside, how might $4 a-gallon gas prices impact the way you live? Will it shorten or cancel summer vacation plans, since airlines would probably be impacted, too? See any point, or possibility, of a consumer backlash?