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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 9/20/2007, you wrote:
> 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.

Why does the government have to do it?  This is like the love affair with 
term limits, something that is entirely within our capabilities but we want 
someone else to do it.  If we as consumers demanded and bought such cars, 
they would be built.  Maybe we should buy the little Honda Fit rather than 
the huge SUV.  My neighbor has two kids but I usually see only her in the 
Suburban.  In many things the government has to remove the greed component 
such as in health care but in many other things we have the hands on the 
controls and wallets.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com