So the three generations of men in my family this weekend honored a very old tradition of spinning stories and views through wafts of cigars, organic cigars to be specific.

My father, who had a long career as an innovator in commercial engineering and politics and continues the craft, tendered the interesting strategy in a conversation about fuel prices, that if everyone in the country left their tanks on one-quarter full, the gap would force prices down.

What other collective acts of innovation could push the envelope of the very few who control the conditions of the very many?