Stop Wasting Gas
4poster
passing on the double solid line,
as if gas were 50 cents a gallon you know they are playing right into
the price gougers' hands.
And how about those huge gas guzzling trucks, to say nothing of
drivers who don't plan their
trips or make unnecessary trips and burn even more gasWhat about the
commuters who refuse to car pool or the employers who refuse to
stagger working hours, so vehicles aren't in gridlock idling away
precious gallons of "black gold".
Just common sense can reduce consumption, thus limiting the Knowing
the energy crunch we face, why do automakers push 500 hp gas hogs?
Why not contact them and demand more production of high mileage
vehicles
Public service vehicles are allowed to idle while the drivers are
taking coffee breaks, so they won't get too warm in summer or cold in
winter"
What about US, state and local officials initiating public information
campaigns to advise citizens about how to reduce consumption
C. E. White
"4poster" <voc...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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Why not just add a $1 a gallon tax to gasoline. We tax everything else that
is considered bad behavior (cigarette, achohol, etc.). Call it the defense
spendning funding act of 2011. It seems most of ur defence money is spent
securing oil supplies or defending us from terroists (and South American
idiots) funded by petro-dollars. Surely if we clamin that it is needed to
protect us from terroist the insane TEA Party people will demand it be
implemented at once. Or instead of adding a dollar a gallon to gasoline,
just add a $75 per barrel tariff on foreign oil - the TEA party people want
to protect American Jobs right?
Ed
4poster
> "4poster" <voca...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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I am on a fixed income, SSA plus a small pension. My wife has a bad
heart
and takes meds four times a day. When the gas skyrockets it
really causes problems for us and an additional tax on top of the
already
high price would be disasterous. I live in a state where they add a 4
cent tax
on the price, with disregard for those who are impacted the most..
4poster
gas guzzlers, like Hummers, for transportation exclusively.
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> On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:40:44 -0700 (PDT), 4poster <voc...@bigfoot.com>
> wrote:
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>>And how about those huge gas guzzling trucks, to say nothing of
>
> farmer. Somehow I cant see myself pulling a 5 ton load of hay, or a
> stock trailer full of cattle or horses, with a high milage mini car.
> Also, living in a rural area in the northern US, requires 4WD. No car
> is going to get in and out of my farm roadway on winter, ir when
> things get muddy.
>
> Some of us have no choice.
>
> Actually, I thought I'd save money on gas when I bought a small car
> and still had my truck. Yea, the car used less gas, but I had double
> the repair costs, double the insurance, double the tires and batteries
> needed, double the license plate fees, etc. Not to mention that it
> seemed everytime I'd take the car (which I could only use in the warm
> weather months), I'd always end up having to haul some farm equipment,
> or a load of firewood, or something, and I'd have to drive all the way
> home, then drive the truck back to where I was. In the end, I was not
> saving anything.
>
> You city folks who only use a car to transport yourself and a bag of
> groceries, can easily drive a small car. Actually you can (and
> should) take public transportation. But on a farm, we MUST have a
> truck, adn these trucks need power to haul all the stuff we haul. Now
> the thing is that GM, Ford, Chrysler and all the other auto makers
> need to make these trucks more fuel efficient, but there are limits.
> To get the needed horsepower, takes fuel and lots of it.
>
> I have had thoughts on this, and one of them was to have a 8 cylinder
> engine, but have a 4cyl mode. When the truck is just being used to
> drive around without any load, it would only use 4 cylinders, but when
> it was pulling a load or using 4WD, it would switch to using all 8.
> Another thing is the gear ratio. Trucks havbe a low ratio for power.
> They need to have a means to switch between high and low.
>
> Yet, I'll go one step further. I think the internal combusion engine
> is obsolete. We need a new power source. Electric cars are limited
> in use. The batteries are very costly and polluting. Solar power is
> a start, but they are similar to electric. Hydrogen power has never
> taken off, (is this because the oil companies would allow it?).
> I dont have the answer, but we need to rethink transportation from the
> beginning.
>
> Of course, living on a farm, I do have the option to ride a horse, and
> sometimes I do just that.
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