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To: RetiredNow who wrote (219049)	2/13/2005 9:39:42 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574629

Gee, you like your idea to reduce oil consumption and fuel other projects, but you didn't like my idea of using the same tactics to eliminate obesity and fix social security and fund medicare and medicaid. You're a hypocrite! I'm hurt! :) If you read the news, people want short term solutions meaning their gas price to go down. Irregardless of the effects you're advocating raising the price of gas and that will never get through the house. I'm already using as little as I can at $2 a gallon because I remember five bucks would get you ten gallons and that was after 1973... If you raise it to ten bucks a gallon I would still use the same amount because I have to get to work. And if you can afford a Hummer, you can afford higher gas prices. I get 40 miles to a gallon, how is making the Hummer driver, getting 5 miles to a gallon, pay for my gas going to change anything? But we don't have the political will, because Bush is an oil man. Did you read what Bush proposed? Friedman's problem is in congress, which is controlled by the public. Bush mentions many times, short term solutions are not the answer. Read his long term ideas. They are there. Recently gas has went from a buck to two bucks a gallon yet I see more and more bigger vehicles on the road. In my opinion, raising the price of gas to four bucks a gallon isn't going to change anything. Class warfare using gas taxes is wrong. Did you ever read about how the 100 miles per gallon carburettor worked? We might want to revisit that...... Until the perceptions against nuclear power are confronted, there isn't going to be any new hydrogen technology. It's obvious Bush's idea to relax emission standards on coal burning plants isn't going anywhere. To me the fundamental long term question is how do we produce hydrogen or electricity cheaper than gas? Hell, the liberal elite in Massachusetts doesn't want windmills in their back yards.... How is Arnold's hydrogen freeway going?