| Re: Lets Blame Ethanol
It will take $5 a gallon before the general US population realizes cheap gas in not a god-given right. The oil companies know exactly how much they can charge to make the most money, while still keep alternative power sources and competing technology economically unattractive.
We need to be energy independent. Electricity makes the most sense for cars because you can make it so many different ways: oil, coal, water, wind, tides, solar, fuel cells...
So let's put a $2 a gallon Federal tax on gas. This would make other way of powering cars attractive and we could use the money to fix the highways and bridges.
Speaking of really fast cars, put a strong electric motor at each wheel and discover the magic high torque four wheel drive.
We just need to get giong. Or are we going to let the oil companies make obscene profits for several more years until a real national crisis develops? |