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Just a discussion
Plugging into CalCars
Kudos to plug-in hybrid pioneers Felix Kramer and CalCars.org. Yesterday, I referenced their Drive Star Conversion plan featured on GreenCarCongress in the post,
While I have issues with the plan, it’s an exceptionally great starting point for the kinds of discussions Congress should be having on this subject – should have been having since 9/11.
Perhaps it’s just me, but why are we not making ending oil dependence, particularly foreign oil, our moon shot?
Why are we not attacking oil dependence as if our entire future depends upon it, even when it actually does?!?
9/11, Katrina and now BP, yet Obama – America -? still hasn’t ‘gone off’ on oil?
While the word coming out of Washington these days seems entirely pegged to cap and trade, is such a plan the best, most efficient path forward? Based on the last 30 years of foreign oil dependence, for example, oil dependence could explode into an uncontrollable nightmare long before cap and trade has any real reduction on carbon emissions.
Even more disconcerting, cap and trade could be a money pit with any accountability so far into the future, that the typical fraud, corruption, pork and loopholes so common in Congressional legislation could turn this program into the greatest financial bubble and bust yet.
Besides, don’t we need results today, accountability today? Moreover, don’t we need more support from the American people?
Let’s be frank, achieving something as significant as a 50 percent reduction in oil consumption in the US by 2020, will be nearly impossible. However, achieving such a goal wouldn’t just create the world’s hottest economy, it would also lead to mind-bending technological innovations, innovations that I’d bet would make carbon emissions an after-thought. Such a goal couldn’t inspire everyday Americans?
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
Does that idea no longer resonate in Washington? ONLY the government that can save the people these days?
Today, oil – not carbon – is the greatest threat to the world.? So, let’s do something about it, today. If American can no longer dare to dream, then the American dream is dead.
50 percent less oil by 2020!
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