If you think oil companies, automobile manufactures, and politicans run in seperate packs, you are sorely mistaken.
They work together to keep the public duped into whatever it is they are selling us. Not overtly where it’s highly visable, but subtly and behind the cover of board rooms and closed (secret) hearings. It is a conspiracy.

We have had the technology to harness energy of all types for many years. Yet automobile manufactures are mandated by congress to make cars that get 30 something miles to a gallon by 2012 or some such garbage. Why is that, when they already have the ability to make cars that get over 50 miles per gallon, AND HAVE ALREADY DONE SO.

The oil companies own 20 plus years of oil reserves in this country in wells already drilled, but capped in order to keep supply at currant levels. They have refused to build refineries. so could not actually produce a whole lot more than present day production quotas, even if they are allowed to drill off our coasts and in Alaska. Personally, I don’t want to give them more as they give us less.

My wife and I just returned from vacationing in Oregon and Washington. We drove a 2000 Hond Civic that got 39 miles to a gallon. Gas ranged from $4,14 to $4.37 a gallon. Why?
Not because we are spoiled, but rather so a few can make a great deal of money. MONEY IS POWER!

We drove through hundreds of miles of beautiful desolate county where the wind blows 24/7 year after year (a tiny fraction of wind country). The not so surprising thing was the small number of wind generators in those areas. Electric power in this country could be clean and cost the consumer just a few dollars per month instead of a hundreds of dollars.
It is only a matter of our government or our power companies spending money to produce and use towers.

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Don’t let them bs you about there not being enough farm land. We have over 100 million total farm acres in the USA and only use about half. The half that’s not being planted is more than enough to grow ALL our fuel. Not only that but the government is still paying farmers not to plant. Watch the video titled “HEMP FUEL Can Supply All Our Energy Needs” and read the article titled “Marijuana Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Know” on the website referenced at the bottom of this post.

Hemp can produce several different kinds of fuel. In the 1800’s and 1900’s hempseed oil was the primary source of fuel in the United States and was commonly used for lamps and other oil energy needs. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hemp oil because Rudolf Diesel assumed that it would be the most common fuel. Hemp is also the most efficient plant for the production of methanol. It is estimated that, in one form or another, hemp grown in the United States could provide up to ninety percent of the nation’s entire energy needs.
Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy

Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel. Hemp pellets can be used to produce clean electricity.

… so powerful it could replace every type of fossil fuel energy product (oil, coal, and natural gas).

… This plant is the earth’s number one biomass resource or fastest growing annual plant for agriculture on a worldwide basis, producing up to 14 tons per acre. This is the only biomass source available that is capable of producing all the energy needs of the U.S. and the world…

Hemp will produce cleaner air and reduce greenhouse gases. When biomass fuel burns, it produces CO2 (the major cause of the greenhouse effect), the same as fossil fuel; but during the growth cycle of the plant, photosynthesis removes as much CO2 from the air as burning the biomass adds, so hemp actually cleans the atmosphere. After the first cycle there is no further loading to the atmosphere…
Source: USA Hemp Museum

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Higher taxes=EVERYONE LOSES

You can’t be honestly advocating this unless you happen to not drive, and not purchase anything, and in fact be dead.

They should also fit fuel-efficient clean diesel engines throughout their current range.

In the UK, the Cadillac BLS can be ordered with a clean diesel engine that produces 30% better mileage then the equivalent gasoline engine.

Maybe I’m getting too old, but in my personal experience and my own reading of history, I’ve never heard of any country taxing itself out of a problem. Taxes are the crack cocaine of politics and you want to give those blockheads in Washington more of it?

By the way, who told you Europeans have ‘good’ roads and ‘good’ infrastructures? Have you driven there? Italy, Greece, Spain, and France are absolutely AWFUL to drive in. The roads are narrow, patched beyond recognition, and are not at all modern. You said in your blog that “our roads are in about the worst condition of anywhere in the World”. The worst in the world? Really? Your credibiltiy suffers when you say things like this.

Oh yes, the Autobahn is magnificant, but it pales in comparison to the interstate highway sustem of the United States (undoubtedly the greatest system of roads on the planet – thank you very much Mr. Eisenhower).

Most European cities still have sewer systems that were hewn out of tree trunks a couple of hundred years ago. France is thinking about going back to a 40 hour work week because their economy can’t sustain their nanny-state lifestyle.

If you want the price of all energy to come down, you’re gonna have to have more of it (let’s face it, the demand curve isn’t really going to do much but slow it’s rate of increase, despite the advent of solar cell phone chargers and ‘green’ cars). The alternative energy sources everybody raves about are still far away and cannot bring up supply fast enough.

If you want the politicians to do something useful, ask them to allow more drilling everywhere it makes economic sense, and take the stranglehold off the development of nuclear power plants (the one thing France does right).

By the way, what’s the country with the highest gas tax in the world?

Turkey.

Now there’s a shining example of what we can become (fabulous roads and a really swell infrastructure).

More taxes? You have to joking.

Since there are 3.785 litres per U.S. gallon (forget about Canadian gallons as they are irrelevant in this context), and gas is about $1.35/litre in Canada (Montreal), and the Canadian Dollar is at 0.98 U.S., we can calculate the price of gas in Canada at about $5.21 US/gallon. In the U.S., the average price is about $4.04/gallon.

In the Great White North, that means we are paying 20%+ than our neighbors South.

Good thing I’m heading to Vermont this weekend.