True costs of gasoline

The proportional idea is valid for the Hummer driver, too. They pay more gas tax, but they require an even greater subsidy. So no, he's not paying the Prius's share.

 

The federal gas tax should have been raised long ago.
It's almost as the government has used are consumer credit card ideology " spend now figure out some way to pay later" what they didn't plan on it was huge rise in gas prices lowering demand and further deepening the holding it already dug by not raising prices to keep up with inflation

No we have a infra structure that is failing in most areas what will be the cost of liability claims for another minnesota bridge like disaster?

 

ya, what we failed to realize is that a bit of sacrifice so many years ago would have us in a very stable and secure position now.

makes me wonder what would have happened if Carter had been elected to another term and had the chance to let his energy policy work a bit. but the problems we face are the exact problems he faced.

great ideas, great future, but no support and too far ahead of his time.

he saw what we are seeing now and was able to do it decades in advance.

we constantly have chances to effect the change, but we always fail because we dont get the governmental support. I have to think that this will be different

1) the situation is much more dire and "in your face"

2) we have a very large corporate entity; Nissan that is all in.

3) we do have token governmental support...ya thats right, token. a few hundred million is nothing more than token support in a budget where most allocations are in the billions but its a start and hopefully that will be enough to gain the groundswell of support we need.

Toyota pulled it off with the Prius, we need to take it another step.

 

And clearly vice versa. Government doesn't get OUR support. All Carter needed to be re-elected was votes from us.

 

Yes, it's the classic short term needs trump all problem, but the human brain is wired for that. That made sense 10K yrs ago. unfortunately, brain bugs will continue to haunt us for some time. the only real solution to them is education and training... and we all know the state of education in this country....