"Buck Turgidson" wrote in news:6ep2q2-
:


Bottom line: it not the government, it's the American citizenry who is
to blame, by its economic behavior in the showroom and the road, and
by
the government whose actions it continues to support at election time.

Exactly. That's why the government needs to increase CAFE mileage
standards and other measures, such increasing the gasoline tax.

All increasing the gas tax will do is give government more money to waste
at the citizen's expense.Note that businesses get to transfer their costs
to the buyers;-citizens.A doubly whammy to the economy.

But they
lack the political cojones to do so.

They're smarter than you.

Without intervention, we'll blissfully keep driving our ridiculous
SUV's. Using the marketplace for public policy ain't gonna work.





Incidentally,CAFE is the reason for SUVs current popularity,because CAFE
effectively killed off the full-size auto,*and SUV's and "light trucks"
wangled an -exemption- from CAFE*.


--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net