High Gas Prices and Good Choices

The water level in Nevada’s Lake Mead has fallen so low that authorities found two bodies previously hidden in the reservoir’s depths, one an apparent homicide victim stuffed into a barrel. Upstream along the Colorado River, in shrinking Lake Powell, another set of waterlogged human remains was recently found in a submerged car. Meanwhile, the bodies of long-dead mountain climbers are emerging from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas and the Alps.