abstract:James "Jim" Manzi (; born 1963) is an American software entrepreneur and political commentator. He is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies (a business analytics firm), a contributing editor at National Review, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributor to a variety of blogs.
Conservative blogger JimManzi rightly points out that, with elasticities as low as these, a gas tax at any politically realistic level is not going to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.