Just an observation

Go Ahead, Burn Oil Lots Of It.
by Ronnie Lobello'
Over the years since the seventies after the big oil shortage
Remember the long lines and the sharp rise in prices?
This was the beginning of the search for the fuel-efficient cars.
People were discovering small import cars, such rice burners as Toyota, Datsun, Subaru, and Hondas these cars where suddenly very popular and sent the U.S. Auto makers scrambling for new small car models such as Chevette, Pinto and a few other poorly built cars most of which you hardly see on the streets anymore.
Well as trends go and with the short memory of the average Joe American.
Big gas-guzzlers where back with a vengeance. Four-wheel drive was the ticket pretty soon there where bigger trucks, and cars where becoming trucks.
This is the birth of the SUV. This trend dose not make much sense, with the price of gasoline at almost $3.00 a gallon.
What seems to be fueling this trend? "no pun intended"
One of many reasons is centered around the auto industry. There is a part of the population that can afford it and they want it the auto industry gives incentives, like rebates on trucks and on larger SUV's like Navigator and then they market the heck out of it. Why is this?
Lets look at Washington where G, W.Bush and his oil company family and cronies are working to suppress any attempt to burn less oil. In other words saving fuel is bad for business.
Look at it this way, if you had a business selling something that people needed, and you had no sense of fairness because greed has taken over your mind, you might do anything to prevent a new technology from making your product obsolete. They're brain washing the general public to think automobile. This nothing new its been going on since the 1940s
The oil barrens are running the United States and planet earth into the ground.
In California the Republicans are trying to pass a bill to abolish the sales tax on gasoline but then taxing every one by the miles they drive instead. The reason this is being proposed is because there has been a rise in high mileage cars like hybrids. This has caused a decline in tax revenue that pays for maintains of the highway infrastructure in that state. It seems to me that this would cause a lack of incentive to purchase high mileage cars. Also in California the ford motor company is taking the Ford Think City and Ranger EV out of circulation claiming that they are not safe and now must be recalled.
Now let me ask you. When has Ford ever voluntarily recall cars for being unsafe? Remember the fight they gave when the safety commission declared that the Ford Pinto was unsafe?
BS I say.
This may seem harsh, but I say raise the taxes on the gallon. This would create a need to get even more miles per gallon and put pressure on the manufactures to produce high mileage cars
Eventually we may reach the point of not using any fossil fuels at all. And even slow down the green house affect.
But this would change the balance of powers. "The powers that be" wouldn't want that to happen.
They will lie, cheat and even murder innocent people, to keep their wealth and power. As long as the republican Texas oil gangsters are in the white house conservation doesn't seem to be happening .The other end of the candle is the war in Iraq and the destruction of the environment, such as wild life refuges.
I fear the next four years. We must not sit on our hand lets do some thing like leaving your car at home and ride a bicycle, and/or speaking out like writing to Congress.

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