Re: $18.40 a gallon GAS

YouKidding? wrote: 
In article <dddqnd$oga$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Elmo <DoNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


YouKidding? wrote:

In article <qfmif1hbtha45e9qe18uv6tieb4t6tmqgo@xxxxxxx>,
bush-must-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



By the time Bush leaves office in January of 2009, at the current rate
of gasoline price increase, we will be paying $18.40 a gallon.  After
Bush is gone, we can expect the prices to come back down.  However,
many of us will be unable to own vehicles by then.


You really blaming Bush for the fuel price increase? You don't think the additional 5 million vehicles added to the Chinese motor pool and the increase in the world wide demand has anything to do with it?

YK 

That is undoubtedly a signficant factor.

What I wonder is why no one is willing to discuss ways to reduce demand.
I know, the attempt to reduce speed limits in Houston a few years back was a real lead balloon. But what's the matter with trying to get auto manufacturers to invest in higher fuel efficiency?


Nothing, if you can get the US public to accept it, after you invest in it. Although I am a young whippersnapper, I remember some of the ideas the auto manufacturers have had and attempted to implement in the past, that just never got accepted. Most of the drivers and auto owners, who have embraced better fuel efficiency as a way of life, have already switched to fuel efficient vehicles. My vehicle averages 38 MPG around the area, 43+ on the highway, on regular gasoline.

JK

CAFE is heading downward. Vehicles classified as trucks (most SUV's) go by different rules. Only takes a little change in regulation to change that. Is it a coincidence that the profit on a SUV is greater than the profit on a fuel efficient car because they can cut out other equipment on a "truck" and the lack of action to change the regulation? I don't think so.

I know it's too much to ask of our government officials to think of things further off than the next election cycle (which seems to begin about 3 months after the last one) but I still think we'd be better off with a few more mavericks who would vote their conscience instead of lining up to feed at the K Street trough.

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If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our
tombstone, "America died from a delusion that she has moral
leadership." - Will Rogers
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