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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Morning musing
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:11:06 EDT

Marie:

> 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 that would help .... a little .... but there are two things going on
here. Even if we cut our gasoline consumption in half, as soon as the oil
decline
starts in earnest, it will do very little good. The reason is that oil
becomes *increasingly* scarce which is to say increasingly expensive. Those
who
were saying the production peak is 40 years away are by and large saying now
it's more like 10. Many others say we passed peak two years ago.

James </HTML>




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