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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (191926)	10/14/2001 3:56:08 AM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>But I do know that the biggest changes ahead will not be in how energy will be consumed but rather how it will be generated. Energy is work.<< Consider this, if it were so easy, wouldn't it have been done by now? My point is that all of these technologies have significant drawbacks, and that even though you view them as being breakthroughs on the horizon, the present cost of fossil fuel is WAY, WAY, WAY cheap by comparison. That should suggest to you that, even though these technologies hold promise--a point that i'm not arguing, that it is quite likely, that you are consuming the cheapest energy you ever will. And with you, I'm not advocating that we all give up our SUV's and Sports Cars(just a personal taste) Just that, you may find out that you can save $200 a month by driving a vehicle with a little less power that gets you to and from where u wanted to go in the same amount of time. If that means that the american love affair with the car changes it's dimension, well, it may just happen. Also, I'd also point out that 13 mpg is pretty dang good compared to the 8 mpg that my 1971 Buick with the 455 cu in motor got!!!! But then again, u can't drive ur SUV @ 135 mph either!

To: DOUG H who wrote (191926)	10/14/2001 12:55:13 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I never said you were unpatriotic for using your 13 mpg business van as a personal, family vehicle. Let me try one more time to explain where I'm coming from: In the early 1970s, during the first so-called "Middle East oil crisis," the federal government urged consumers to practice energy conservation and, at the same time, told automakers to start making cars that get more miles to the gallon of gas. Americans responded, and so did Detroit. Newspapers published lists every year of how many mpg each car got. The reason these lists were published is that it was important for Detroit to make more fuel-efficient cars. Over the next three decades, our interest in conservation/improved fuel mileage has waxed and waned ... but mostly waned. When I look at all the SUVs on the road today, I ask, Why? Why are there so many gas-guzzling Broncos as opposed to comfortable four-door sedans that get perhaps 50% better gas mileage? What happened to this country's mission to use less gasoline and turn out more fuel-efficient cars and, in the process, become less dependent on Saudi oil? The answer, as it was explained to me, is that SUVs are actually classified as trucks and therefore exempt from mpg standards for cars. That, my friend, is a prime example of corporate deceit to the detriment of America. Detroit used a loophole to supply gas hogs to hundreds of thousands of Americans who have the money to buy one and gas one up every week. This is clearly "economically unpatriotic."