Yglesias Award Nominee

"We’re at a tipping point here. We have to do something to favor the new technologies and send a message to American consumers that gasoline prices are going to be systematically higher. A gas tax is a statement from the government that this is an issue of national security and we’re going to do something about it," – Mike Jackson, chief executive officer of AutoNation Inc., at the Reuters Autos Summit in Detroit. (For a glossary on the various awards given annually by this blog, click here. And send nominees in!)