Do Americans have a sense of irony? Currently there are a lot of complaints that the rising cost of gazoline (petrol) means that it now costs about $100 (£50) to fill up the tank of a big gaz-guzzling SUV compared with $30 just five years ago. Now look at this picture. It was taken earlier this month in San Diego (shot thru a chain link fence if you were puzzled by the blurry bits) showing a local stretch of freeway (it's the San Diego Freeway where it runs under 5th Avenue as it happens) in the mid-afternoon. The main road is busy – and so is the filter lane/ramp in the centre of picture. But looky here – there is nobody using the carpool lane for cars carrying more than one person. Go figure.



(San Diego, 15:31pm, May 14th 2008, f 4.9 - 1/400 - ISO 100)