I think that a useful regulation would be to manda...

2009-04-25T18:43:00.000-07:00

I think that a useful regulation would be to mandate a trip meter that showed exactly how much fuel was used on a trip by trip basis. It would automatically reset at each restart, and ideally would have a feature that required that you enter the fuel price at each refueling. Then we would all know how much our car usage was actually costing us in a trip by trip basis.

I agree with you entirely about measuring amount o...

2009-04-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

I agree with you entirely about measuring amount of gasoline used. I'd suggest that we measure in gallons because that it what Americans understand.

Also, I don't think that we really need that many specific incentives to get people to use less gasoline. Simply increase the taxes on it in a specific and planned manner. Set a target price for the commodity that is growing through taxation. People will figure out how to get done what they need to do.

Use the revenue to fund a permanent "stimulus" payment. Market it as a stimulus that you are in control of - meaning that if you get $1000 from the government, but only pay $100 in taxes, you profit. Add in some specific measures to help people trade in older cars (e.g. buybacks) and you are there.

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I think that a useful regulation would be to manda...

I agree with you entirely about measuring amount o...