Logarithmic Frequency response graphs

Thanks, Eldartford, but I must still be missing something because it seems to me that the x axis would not be any harder to read if the octaves between the decades were spaced evenly on the line. Since the octives themsleves are spaced evenly, what part gets scrunched this way?

I appreciate your patience - Ijust know I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night shouting Aha! soon.

Thanks for the responses. Let me re-phrase the question a little more specifically.

Why do I usually see freq. response graphed logaritmically between octaves while the ocataves themselves are spaces linearly?