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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

WAIT!  Hold one, I missed that one.  What tax write off for SUVs?

BTW, the government has worked hard to see that real high MPG cars aren't on 
the road.  The feds blocked CA from requiring more high MPG cars from being 
sold in CA.  As soon as they blocked the law and the lawsuit, GM pulled 
their electric cars which people were VERY happy with, were very economical 
and would have put a big crimp in the sales of gas guzzlers!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>


> It can also require car companies to produce higher mpg cars, which is
> what people are looking for anyway, and get rid of the tax write off
> for SUVs. And it can tax gasoline <gasp> to induce people to drive
> less on their own.
>
> All the alternate
> > fuels and alternate energy will fall very short of making up the 
> > diffefence when
> > oil goes into decline in earnest.  Yet, what is the government doing?
> > Pushing ethanol.  Alas, energy-wise it takes about a gallon of ethanol to 
> > make a
> > gallon of ethanol.  Biodiesel is a little better, but only a little.
>
> I can't say that I disagree much.
> > We've just got to stop moving around so much and heating such big houses.
> I've kept the house below 60F for the last two winters. Which makes me
> suffer in the heat at work, but -- hey -- layers are now fashionable.
> At home I wear Carhardts.