Michael Barone agrees with me

One of the reason I started blogging to begin with is that I sometime have the ability to see around corners and by blogging I could document my prescience. Last Friday, I made an observation that would clearly establish me as a True Master of the Obvious: $4 a gallon gas made a "tectonic shift" in public perception about energy in general and oil in specific.

Now, here comes no less than Michael Barone two days later saying essentially the same thing in The National Review Online. The Lede:

Sometimes public opinion doesn’t flow smoothly; it shifts sharply when a tipping point is reached. Case in point: gas prices. Three-dollar-per-gallon gas didn’t change anybody’s mind about energy issues. Four-dollar-per-gallon gas did. Evidently, the experience of paying more than $50 for a tankful gets people thinking we should stop worrying so much about global warming and the environmental dangers of oil wells on the outer continental shelf and in Alaska. Drill now! Nuke the caribou!

It's nice to be right.