Easily?!? Hardly. That’s the MAX speed it can reach. No vehicle reaches its max speed easily.

How does one get a concussion when there’s nothing other than a padded shock-absorbing head rest for the Driver's Integrated Display to hit? As I said before, if you have anything to back up your claim, please share it.

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How about on the need to transport anything having a lot of weight and volume? And how about letting the people decide if they want to conserve energy that THEY BUY or not.And if you raise the price to $500,000,000, you'll likely cut it down to nothing. The problem is that you're shitting on people who run a good, honest business transporting supplies.Says the guy who can't think of any uses for trucks besides brick transportation.It shouldn't be subsidized by them. I don't have a particular problem with the cost of gasoline going up due to market forces, even if I find it unpleasant.Where did I clamor to subsidize petroleum use?

You put people at risk when you drive anything at all. Should we force everyone to walk? What if I don't feel safe with my neighbor walking on public property? Do I handcuff him to his fence?[/quote]And you plan to implement this...how? Who will move the bricks and the petroleum? Smart cars and helicopters?[quote]
All are stupid.Once again, stupid. You create a shitload more paperwork where there is already quite a bit and create a special class of drivers that have government privileges.And I think you should stop wasting electricity and bandwidth on Internet posts. Turn off your computer and cancel your ISP subscription immediately.

Perhaps you'd like to run your theory by the National Research Council. During their studies, they've found conventional wisdom holds true; that bigger and heavier vehicles are safer;

Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards

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You need to read more than the headline of your own source. It states specifically that people were buying bigger vehicles, and waiting in traffic longer, which brought the average down. Not that the economy of the vehicles stayed flat. The technology is there, and has increased fuel economy. What was the average fuel economy of a Chevrolet 1500 truck in 1980? About 13mpg. That would mean that the increase over the last twenty-six years is about 50%. That does not seem too bad to me. Considering when you look at the vehicles produced in 1980 that are still made today (or 2006 when my truck was made), they all seem to have increased by about that same 50% in economy.

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Simple solution:
Double the price of gas threw Tax
Reduce income tax by 1% or offer universal healthcare

That will solve the problem.. Already works in Europe...

Certain Industries don't pay gas tax.. Agriculture....

What problem?

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HOPE AND CHANGE

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The problem is we don't have enough poor people to demand government support. We need to tax them into submission so that they ask for government services.

I hear ya.

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-Thomas Jefferson

We need to find a way to mass produce cars and trucks out of carbon fiber as cheaply as steel.

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"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

-Thomas Jefferson

Every time you argue against a higher gas tax.
There are thousands of bridges and tens of thousands of miles of roadway that need repair in this country right now. If the gas tax was high enough that money would be there, instead we borrow the money to subsidize the mechanism for burning petroleum.

There are ways to make cities "greener", and they don't require breakthrough technology.
New York City is the greenest place in America, the citizens of NYC have the smallest carbon footprint, the lowest automobile use, and the lowest heating costs in America. They walk more, use mass transit more and drive less.
If every citizen in the US used as much energy as a NYC resident, we wouldn't need foreign oil.
Because NYC was built before the automobile culture took over.
Now at one time when the US was a petroleum producing country, it may have made sense to promote the use of a domestic resource, but we are still promoting the use of petroleum, even though we need to borrow money to buy it from foreign sources.

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Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

That kinda reminds me of Ford's soybean car of 1941.

Soybean Car

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Not taxing something specifically and to an unusually great extent does not equal subsidizing it, goober. You're playing with words.Based on what source? I have a hard time believing it since there are probably tiny towns all over America that use very little of, well, everything due to low population density. Are you talking per capita?NYC is very densely population, with huge buildings at every turn. Of course they can get around walking. EVERYTHING IS SO CLOSE!I think you're playing with words again. Just because gas users aren't taxed to death, doesn't mean the use of gas is being "promoted."

The use of gas doesn't seem to bear it's proper cost. Road usage, Foreign export, fighting of wars/security, Environment..... Therefore is should be taxed accordingly...

Oil is a depleting resource so the government should be protecting the US economy and getting them off a resource which will dramatically increase in price over the next 20 years. It should prepare the US economy for a life of very high gas prices...

Therefore the tax on gas should be raised. Why should the non users of gas have to pay for those lazy spongers of gas when they could just drive more economical vehicles... Exceptions do apply for various industries who use a specially coloured diesel.

This how it works in Europe...