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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: ChanceIs who wrote (91496)10/5/2007 1:30:48 AM
From: elmatador   of 206166
 
Per tonne lugged around by the engine, new cars are indeed more efficient than before. But as new cars have been putting on weight over the years—think of those Humvees—drivers are not getting any more miles per gallon than they did in the past.



The obvious solution is to tax the cars by the HP. The smaller cars become cheaper and the cars slim down.

But what we have seen was effort to clean the air, by imposing costs on the refiners while the cars got obese.

The present step is much more intelligent. Forget about cleaning the dirty fuel at huge cost: get a clean fuel. Thus biofuels...
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