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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: TimF who wrote (370)6/20/2008 5:36:57 PM
From: Road Walker   of 86356
 
Higher gasoline prices (by a gas tax if you feel you need to increase the disincentive for using a lot of gas), hits all these people the "appropriate" amount. People who use more gas take the hit, people who use less don't.

A lot of people don't have a choice. And you would be punishing the efficient as well as the inefficient. The point is to upgrade the efficiency of the fleet, and "magically create" millions of gallons of gasoline. You do that by incentives for efficiency.

Plus the hit on the economy... inflation, reduced discretionary spending, would be multiplied by what we are already experiencing and what is to come.

This proposal is for personal vehicles, so the "church group" thing would be exempt. Old cars would go with the EPA estimates I suppose. Modified cars are an outlier, what percentage? I suppose they would balance on the total effect. Mileage testing would create too much expense.

Frankly, I fully expect gas prices to go down from here on a short term basis... but the core problem is not going away. The world has entered into a steadily declining resource competition for a vital economic commodity... and the US is uniquely vulnerable because of the structure of our society. (The old 5% of the population; 25% of consumption). Many, many cultures in world history have disappeared for the same reason.

We got a preview in the 70's, and didn't act. The real deal is here now. Yes drill as much as you can... but MPG efficiency is the only short term answer. And replacing grossly inefficient vehicles with very efficient vehicles is the low hanging fruit.
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