| "Sure the consumer can switch to cleaner automobiles in the meanwhile, but there won't be a market incentives like tax breaks or subsidies as long as those in power will see to it."
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With "peak oil" here already or just around the corner, and America blindly burning gasoline as if it was an unlimited resource; we prove ourselves to be that which many nations hate. Users and abusers of an excessive percentage of the world's finite resources.
100% tax deductions in one year for a Hummer? Sure! Realistic CAFE standards? Not a chance. Global climate change, insane defecits and national debt, an emptied social security fund...We are much more comfortable being lied to and feeling safe in our comfort zone than face hard truths.
No new taxes, all the perks that you ask for, for free, Just vote for me!
We need to be spending our energy working on a new dynamic. Fossil fuels are soon going to be too expensive to waste them on such things as individual transportation in two ton behemoths and running inefficient power plants.
Instead we allow an "oil man" that never found oil to squat in the White House, and let him risk Armageddon in order to steal enough access to keep his master's companies healthy and wealthy. Wasting wealth and talent on war when the need to reshape our society is imperative is insane, but our collective heads are still in the sand.
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