[R. Scott]

How do you know that?

Do I know it as an established fact? No. I am familiar with the American Consumer and the power of the envirowacko crowd. Your statement – “…decreasing auto fuel usage by, let us say, 35% across the board while reducing the wealth transfer from oil into the hands of Saudi Princes by a good 10% for starters?” - would require a massive change in consumer habits.
What would it take to decrease auto fuel consumption by 35%? People like me would have to scrap our current cars and buy a hybrid. I’m not ready – nor can I afford – to do that. A lot of people would also have to sell their homes and move closer to work or quit their jobs and try to find employment closer to home. Many city zoning laws would have to change to allow people to live and work in the same general area.
How would we cut Saudi’s oil income by 10%? Opening American oil fields and building a few new refineries would be a start – but the environmentalists would be in open armed revolt.

[AmericanVictory]

You are simply wrong. For example, would you buy a cheaper, cleaner fuel that got better mileage if you could use it in your existing vehicles by buying an already developed device from an existing large parts manufacturer for, let us say, $20 to $30 and paying a mechanic $50 to synchronize it with your vehicles' computers, if, also, you could still burn regular gasoline if you had to, or any mixture of the better fuel and regular gas?