Workable and Unrealistic suggestions abound on how to save gasoline through conservation. Some folks have been bold and dumb enough to actually favor ideas like Detroit Democrat Dingle’s 50 cents tax on every gallon of gas. That surprises me but it depends on who you talk to I suppose. If you are talking to a guy who owns his own small construction company and who drives a work truck full of equipment who has to get 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 something needs to be done. The cost of oil yesterday was above $108 a barrel after earlier topping $109.
The national average for a gallon of gas is now at $3.24 and in California it is $3.58 per gallon! .
Not a single new refinery has been built in America since the 1970s, so we can't do much about the supply side of the equation. What we can control is demand, and this can be accomplished via greater fuel efficiency, conservation and increased transit alternatives.
These are a few ideas that most anyone can agree with
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 significantly increase the bar on what new cars have to attain as a minimum MPG. As of 2004, new cars had to average at least 27.5 mpg and light trucks such as sport utility vehicles 20.7 mpg.
Late last year, Congress enacted the first significant overhaul of so-called corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards in more than 30 years. Automakers will now be required to raise average mileage for both cars and light trucks to 35 mpg by 2020.
I say that they can do better. I say the nation's minimum mileage average should be no less than 50 mpg by 2020.
Sure, automakers will whine that this is an unreasonable goal or that it would make their products too expensive for most consumers, don’t let them fool you. 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, besides, 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!
More than likely the Japanese and South Koreans are all set and ready to meet whatever requirements that we set for them.
Lower speed limits: It is a known fact that above the mid 50s MPH, the consumption of gas rises dramatically. That’s just waste.
Telecommuting: Tax breaks should be given to businesses to encourage them to allow their employees to work from home.
In L.A. specifically, tax breaks also should be offered to businesses that create branch offices closer to workers' homes, thus easing commutes and gas costs.
These are a few ideas. No shortage of ideas exists, this is for sure. Some are broad stroke type ideas and some are things that we can enact on an individual basis. Some of the ideas are brilliant, some of them ware workable and some of them uh… neeed more work!
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