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To: Road Walker who wrote (295423)	7/18/2006 7:20:44 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572630

I certainly hope it doesn't take a generation. Here's a thought experiment. If the average plug-in hybrid flex fuel vehicle costs $10K more than an equivalent car and we have 100M cars to replace that are currently on the road, then that's about $1 trillion to make up the difference in citizen spending to replace all the cars on the road with cars that get 3 to 4 times the fuel efficiency (from 25 mpg avg to 75-100 mpg avg). That would eliminate the need for all oil imports into this country. In other words, we would be energy independent. Now $1 trillion seem like a lot of money, but consider this. We've already spent $400B on Iraq and by most estimates, we will spend $1 trillion total by the time we get out of Iraq in the next 3-5 years. Also, consider that we spend $400B per year on the Pentagon and armed forces, which are needed primarily to protect our oil interests around the world. If we slimmed down the national spending on the military by $100B per year, we could pay for this and we wouldn't be nearly as offensive to all those freaks out there because we wouldn't be trying to protect oil interests and supporting dictatorships to do so. Also consider this...if we spent $1 trillion on replacing our cars, then that will make us the de facto leader in oil independent vehicles, which will give us a whole slew of patents and leadership in a business that every other country in the world wants a piece of. It's good for our economy, it's good for our national security, and it's good for the environment. What's wrong with our leaders? Give me Al Gore or a Republican that has the balls to make energy independence his platform and he's got my vote.