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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (4670)	3/30/2005 12:27:59 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

We need a gasoline tax that would keep pump prices fixed at $4 a gallon, even if crude oil prices go down. At $4 a gallon (premium gasoline averages about $6 a gallon in Europe), we could change the car-buying habits of a large segment of the U.S. public, which would make it profitable for the car companies to convert more of their fleets to hybrid or ethanol engines, which over time could sharply reduce our oil consumption. This part is nonsense .. Americans 'buy' what Detroit sells .. Make the car companies offer vehicles that get +30 mpg or whatever mpg figure you want to reduce consumption of transportation fuels .. The technology already exitis for +200 mpc for EV's and +75 mpg for diesel-elctric hybrids .. Detroit just needs to make them .. Triff ..