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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (203879)	4/23/2007 6:42:52 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

The US can also require US Automakers to get on the ball and give them 3 years to come up with smaller fuel friendly. I read a quote the other day that said: "Canada is the Socialist version of the USA." :>) As you know, we get the bulk of our outside oil from Canada. Our entire Arab input is less than 17%. But the problem is, the damn stuff is fungible. It's like any stock. If the price goes up on a share in China, it goes up the same amount here. We can't "tier" the price. The Saudis are the only ones with good excess capacity. So the extra few millon barrels a day they can sell or hold back determines the world price. They can crack the price to $30, or hold back and run it to $100. They don't, because like any businessman, they want to maximize their profits. And screwing around with your pricing is not the way to do it.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (203879)	4/24/2007 7:02:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Geez Ichy, you lefty statists always want the government to boss somebody around. <The US can also require US Automakers to get on the ball and give them 3 years to come up with smaller fuel friendly. > Toyota, which is a US automaker, and others, have long since come up with smaller and fuel friendly vehicles. Heck, you can even go out and buy a Segway and if really serious, a bicycle. Automakers are not like Saddam. They make what their customers will buy. If they make things people won't buy, the people won't buy them and the company that makes the wrong things will go broke. The best thing for the government to do is fire half of its employees and leave it to automakers and their customers to decide what to buy. All that governments need to do is control what pollution people put in the air and charge tariffs to reflect the cost of managing and securing the borders. For example, a tariff might be charged on all imported hydrocarbons to encourage USA-based energy and efficiency and fund border security. Mqurice