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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (227221)3/30/2005 6:59:21 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 1573695
 
The truth is that a panacea is not needed. Simply a comprehensive oil conservation program. Hybrids alone could reduce our consumption dramatically.

The U.S. consumes around 21 million barrels of oil per day. We produce more than half of that. A reduction of just 10% of consumption would allow us to almost completely stop importing oil from the Persian Gulf countries, including our worst enemies.

If the average car is replaced every 10 years and the average car is 5 years old, then within 10 years, most cars could be replaced with hybrids, if gov't incentives and public will existed to make it happen. If our gov't mandated an increase of 10 mpg per new vehicle produced within the next 5 years, many large car manufacturers would start including hybrid technology in order to make it happen. If our gov't provided incentives to manufacturers and to consumers, as well as aggressive conservation policies, we could make this happen in record time and the long term benefits to our economy and our national security would out weight the costs by orders of magnitude.

No matter how you slice it, it is unbelievably easy for our country to reduce oil consumption. But with Bush in power, there just doesn't seem to be the leadership necessary to push the agenda.
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