Commentaries: Lower Gas prices and Fix Environmental Issues
Lately as I read the News coverage on the Energy bill in the Senate It has occurred to me that Government will never solve Energy Issues. Our Senate leaders bulk and squabble over rather increasing auto fuel economy by 30 percent to 36 miles per gallon by 2022 and for sport utility vehicles and small trucks to reach 30 mpg by 2025 would be a good thing.
Lawmakers argue that requiring the Electricity companies to produce 15% of there energy from renewables by the year 2020 is asking to much.
Reading this has convinced me that government can not be relied on to solve issue as big as ecology and the survival of the Human Race. So I started thinking about what can be done to solve these issues.
I like many others have received those internet chain mails encouraging consumers not to buy gasoline on one day or another. This effort is futile at best as people need to go to work, pick kids up from school, Doctors appointments etc. Even if this effort was effective it would just correct itself the next day when everyone filled up there tanks with no net loss for the oil companies. I propose a slightly different Solution.
Nobody buy a new car until an Environmental viable car is produced and sold.
If you think about this it will have the trickle down effect.
Car companies rely on new car sales to stay in business. If car sales slumped because consumers put off purchasing a new car until a ecological and practical car was put out at a reasonable price, It would happen quickly.
Solve the issue through consumerism.
Car companies would almost instantaneously start producing products that contribute to solving the environmental issues, as they would have to for survival.
Consumers would get revenge on Oil companies that are price gouging as oil would quickly become a thing of the past.
We would be off middle eastern oil.
Government would get a quick kick in the butt due to loss of tax revenue generated from car sales.
This method would get noticed quickly as this is a number tracked not only by car companies but by governments as it is a big part of durable goods (a key economic indicator)
The US consumes about 146 billion gallons of gasoline per year. We could cut this in half maybe more if the average consumer just demanded an affordable ecological sound car. The technology exists. (http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php) for one example. (and for all the cynics out there this is not a Tesla advertisement. I have no affiliation with tesla motors- Just a good example of a responsible car that no normal person can afford)
While we all can’t afford a $100,000 car. If this technology was in mass production It would become affordable. This is just 1 viable solution I have seen many others. It just comes down to the will power of the people demanding an alternative to our gas guzzlers.
Why Government does nothing and oil companies empty our pockets Just think there is another way.
DON’T BUY A NEW CAR
Buy a used one, Fix the one you have. Do what you have to do to not purchase a new car and you will see things change over night.
I hate chain mail personally but I feel this is important enough for me start a chain mail.
Please pass this on to everyone you know.
Regards
Johnny Freeze
Posted on Friday, 15 June 2007 @ 17:16:19 UTC by Paul (2784 reads) [ Trackback ]
