70% of oi lwe use caused by our cars. But congress wont pass new MPG laws.

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amazing.

Shortsightedness
Greed
Selfishness
Self Sacrifice? That's for suckers

when they were voting on amendments such as reducing consumption by a million barrels by 2013 and they were going down in flames one right after the other and I was just in disbelief that we have no regaurd for our future and will do nothing to save our way of life. Absolutely inexcusible. I guess we voted for these fools though.

Well, there would be a lot less politicians telling me how things should be, but I digress.

1: When you register your car for new/updated plates, if it's on a "This car sucks ass" list, you pay double. The "This car sucks ass" list would be a rolling list. Start with all non-hybrid SUV's, minivans, pickup trucks. Rather than make somebody's plates cheaper as the car gets older, if the fuel economy isn't over the bar each year, your plates go up.

The extra goes to fund ethanol and biodiesel development. Get us off oil, foreign and domestic.

2: I would force the auto manufacturers to support B100/E100 fuels or pay nasty tariffs. Consumers should not have to worry if their new car can use an alternative fuel. It should just work.

3: No more tax breaks that allow people to buy Hummer H2's and write them off to their "company" that for some reason never really does any business. Tax breaks to real businesses that promote mass transit and hybrid vehicles.

4: All new government vehicles would be hybrid, and for certain ones, electric.

5: Using the new thin polymer photovoltaics, cover parking lots, building roofs, etc. Use that power to offset their purchase cost, then to offset other power use. Some parts of the country get enough sun that it could be very useful.

6: I am glad to see hybrid cars getting tax breaks, but they shouldn't decline every year. They should be fixed, or even go UP. The people buying now are not doing it for the tax break, they're doing it to do the right thing. Those people already recycle, conserve, etc. They need to do something to help people on the fence make their decision. Get the money by punishing Hummer (and the like) sales.

7: Offer an award. Give it to the first automaker to build, market, sell, service and support a 75mpg 4 seater vehicle, that sells 100,000 units at a nice price point like $20,000. Make that award so high it's insane. Like one year, no taxes. Something like 5 years after the 100,000th unit sells, if the car was safe, highly efficient, etc, you get that year's taxes refunded. Some sort of "X-Prize" for fuel efficiency, but one with no loopholes.

Ok, no more banging the podium.