Many ideas are flying around on methods to save gasoline through conservation. Some people have been bold and dumb enough to actually come out in support of penalties like Detroit Democrat Dingles fifty cents tax on every gallon of gas. That shocks me but I guess that it makes more sense to some than to others. If you talk to a construction worker driving a work truck loaded with equipment who can only eek out 14 MPG with that rig or else have no job then he would certainly be hurt greatly by such a surcharge or excise tax.
But clearly we need to do something. Oil was trading Tuesday at an astronomical $108 a barrel after earlier surpassing $109.
At the pump, the national average for a gallon of regular gas hit a record $3.227. The average in California was $3.581 a gallon.
There hasnt been a single refinery opened on American soil in over thirty years, unless this changes there isnt much we can do about the supply side of the equation. What we can exercise control over, even on an individual level is demand, and we can do that through various means of conservation.
Here are a few suggestions.
Demanding new mileage requirements from Detroit: The biggest broad stroke solution that we can effect as a country to wean ourselves from our oil troubles would be to substantially boost the minimum required mileage for new vehicles. The last increase was four years ago and it set the bar that new cars had to average at least 27.5 mpg and light trucks including SUVs 20.7 mpg.
Late last year, Congress enacted the first substantial overhaul of so-called corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards since the 1970s. Automakers will now be required to raise average MPG for both cars and light trucks to 35 mpg by 2020.
That's good, but not nearly good enough. I say it should be set at fifty miles per gallon and no lower by 2020.
Sure, automakers will whine that this is an unreasonable goal or that it would make their products too expensive for most consumers, thats bunk. The Union of Concerned Scientists tells us that with the existing technology, cars would be raised up to 40 MPG minimum without have any significant impact on prices. And, truth be told, thee and me both know that they have those computer sensors on cars made after 1995 rigged so that cars can only get so much MPG. They just need to unhack them!
I have no doubt the Japanese and South Koreans are ready and able to meet this challenge.
Lower speed limits: Fifty-five saves fuel and lives. It was true then and it's true now. Don't like it? Tough.
Telecommuting: Tax breaks should be given to businesses to encourage them to allow their employees to work from home.
As spread out and sprawling as Los Angeles is, for example, any business that opens offices in different parts of the city should be given tax breaks. This would lessen congestion and waste of fuel and also help the commercial real estate market
So these are just a few ideas out of many. Ideas is something that there is no scarcity of. Some of them national, some of them local. Some of them good, some of them not so good!
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Here is the best that I know of
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