Brian said he heard or read it somewhere, that’s the “article” I was referring to. (Since I described it as “horrible” I wanted to give a nod to the fact that Brian was repeating someone else’s theory, not offering it up as his own).
Anyway the historical record is pretty clear that rising oil prices (and thus gas prices) are bad for the near-term economic growth. There may well be longer term benefits from a move to more efficiendy as pri_dk describes, but that’s not what Brian was talking about.
