As automation comes about detroit and the EPA will lean on the people who write laws to do things like make 4 way stops into 2 way stops, make it legal to rolling stop at a right turn, get rid of red arrows at dedicated left turn lanes that don't cross 3 lanes of traffic, etc etc in order to save fuel.

There will be a lot more flashing yellows in a few years.

So every single gallon of gasoline used in every country is all provided by conflict petroleum?

By the same token, every plastic spork is funding terrorism.

> So every single gallon of gasoline used in every country is all provided by conflict petroleum?

Of course it is. Petroleum is a global commodity. If there is more demand anywhere then the price goes up and all sellers make more money.

> By the same token, every plastic spork is funding terrorism.

Only the ones that aren't recycled. Make sure you recycle your spork.

Except there's currently a price war going on because of fracking. There's way more supply than there was a decade ago, most of it domestic.

Which has no effect on the principle. Increasing the demand will increase the price regardless of whether the existing price is $2 or $4.