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How to improve the price of gasoline without breaking the public treasury.

1) Provide market purchase agreements for oil derived from coal. For example, the government will purchase X number of barrels of oil at a certain minimum price, say $40 per barrel. These barrels of oil would then be used to fill up the strategic reserve and then once full, sold at market price. This would give a minimum guarantee on the economics of the production plant yet still allow the plant to sell excess production into the market place. These contracts would be long term - like 25 years.

2) Reduce the regulation and overhead required to build and operate refineries

3) Congress should pass a single nationwide standard for gasoline formulation that eliminates specialty blends

4) Allow the import of ethanol for gasoline reformulation without input duties.

5) allow the import of gasoline that meets the national standard without additional import duties.

6) Sponsor automotive contests that target specific problems via research grants and scholarship funding. For example - maintain the same shape / size and safety rating but eliminate as much weight as possible through the use of alternative materials. Much of the gas mileage efficiency gains over the past 2 decades have been due to lighter cars, not advancement in power production.

1) Provide market purchase agreements for oil derived from coal.

I could not support this type of govenment manipulation of the market. Let it stand on its own economics. I support tax incentives for domestic production of fuel. I do not support politicians selecting which fuel we should use.

2) Reduce the regulation and overhead required to build and operate refineries

Yes a little consistance without changing rules would go a long ways.

3) Congress should pass a single nationwide standard for gasoline formulation that eliminates specialty blends

Ditto

4) Allow the import of ethanol for gasoline reformulation without input duties.

5) allow the import of gasoline that meets the national standard without additional import duties.

Replacing one foriegn fuel with another is not the solution to our problems.

Much of the gas mileage efficiency gains over the past 2 decades have been due to lighter cars, not advancement in power production.

I don't believe most of the efficiency gains from 1986 are from weight reduction.

Ethanol and Biodiesel have come to the USA not from the Ocean but from Indiana. Man o man the farmers are not screaming any more.

I say the USA gov subsitites to farmers should be turned off and given a discount credit by creating ethanol and biodiesel commodities.

I say no to the IRS regulation that force farmers or home owners that want to sell fuel to thier neighbor . I say no to the gov regulations on creating ethonal. If you want a cup for yourself and 10 gallons in the tank I say lets go for it. I say taxing fuel is worse than the boston tea party. If they want us to pay for roads it should be my local municipality that get the fuel tax not some city in New york.

I hope the grip the gov has placed on us