* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional "boutique" blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-found oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming Hoax.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
The only place I would seriously differ with you is in the “cease all methanol production part” I don’t like government mandates even when they are for something I agree with. Just eliminate all subsidies and mandates for production while removing barriers to imports of ethanol. I’m fine with it if the market demands it.
*I especially like the pebble bed reactors, the smaller versions of which would be especially suitable for providing energy for extraction operations in tar sands and shale.
*In my locality fuel taxes are levied on a “cents per gallon” basis and not as a percentage of the price so there is no “windfall” there. I don’t know if it is different in other areas or not, but the “cents per gallon” method seems sufficient for the goals you seem to be espousing.
—All in all, I’d say we could do much worse as a Nation than to take your proposal seriously. It makes more sense than 99% of what comes out of DC...