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To: Win Smith who wrote (135605)	6/4/2004 1:21:27 PM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A crash conservation program is indeed needed - it's the only thing that will help in the short term. Before heaping more scorn on the GOP, note that inaction during the Clinton years squandered what may prove to have been the last opportunity to address the problem before the peak. Also look at the noises coming out of the Kerry camp advocating actions to defend our right to cheap petrol. Let's face it, neither political party has the will to step up to this issue. If you want conservation, you could do worse than to start with a big rise in the gasoline tax. It would be very disruptive, which is why missing the chance to phase it in gradually during the 90s is so tragic. Yes, it would hurt "the little guy", but then, it's the behaviour of large numbers of people that needs to be altered. This isn't a situation where you can soak the rich to solve the problem. Both the right and the left would be dead set against it, for different reasons, so it won't happen until there are severe shortages.