Keep raising taxes and Americans won't have any money to buy your overpriced cars.
Raising taxes on Gas would drive people to be more efficient and consume less. But it would also kill the economy and reduce our lifestyles.
I say build nuclear plants, so that there is an abundance of energy. Provide that energy to hydrogen producers at variable cost, letting other energy consumers pay for the plant overhead, which they would be paying for anyway if nobody was producing hydrogen.
Get the cost of hydrogen fueled vehicles down to the equivalent of $1 per gallon of gas. Then you have a real incentive for people to convert to hydrogen and tell OPEC and the middle east where to put their oil.
Yeah, make Americans sink all their money into gas tanks and heat, leaving them starving and forced into bankruptcy, and then they will buy a smaller eco-car. Are these people born this stupid? Or did they have to work at it?
1) $4 or $5 per gallon fuel will conserve fuel and lead people to buy less fuel per year and more fuel efficient vehicles. That's been proven three or four times in the last four decades.
2) Add a $1 per gallon tax just to better fund the US military -- with even just the basics: more and better body armor, more ammo, new rifles, more close air support platforms, more C-17 airlift planes (so that our troops don't get hung out on the end of a vulnerable logistical thread), and better veterans' health care, etc. etc.
3) Add another $1 per gallon tax, the revenues to be turned over to States to fix roads and bridges (and no swiping that fuel tax for airports and mass transit rail, etc.)
The problem with $4 to $5 gas is that incumbents are in jeopardy of losing their office if this happens.
Just ask Republican incumbents in 2006, and to a lesser degree, John McCain in 2008.
When Gas Prices are high, people are pissed. It’s that simple. They blame it on anything and everything in sight too. Many people I work with were certain that the War was the reason for high gas prices and that’s the way BOOSH ‘The Oil Man’ wanted it...
It’s also a surefire way to kill their global warming malarkey. People don’t give a Rodent’s posterior about that stuff when they’re hurting, that’s why that agenda is failing now. They only care about it when there is nothing else to worry about.
“DETROIT (Reuters) - There’s a simple way to get Americans to drive fuel-efficient cars, according to auto executives, but they are not going to like it — sharply hike the gas tax.”
Buy an American car ? Never again !
Some days I feel like wasn’t born with enough middle fingers.
Time to buy another motorcycle , made in JAPAN
Queer the system and artificially raise prices as high as you (they) like - I will continue to drive. Of course at a certain point it will become cheaper to just *appropriate* it...
I have a much better idea to get Americans to drive fuel efficient cars - put an "auto executive" out front pulling it!!!
(I'd pay real money just to SEE that, much less experience it!!)
I think Chrysler and Ford were on the right track back in the early eighties with small displacement four cylinder turbocharged gas engines. That is the true substitute for "cubes".
A turbocharger gives you high performance out of a small displacement engine while you have your foot in it (getting out into traffic) and then it reverts to being a small efficient engine after you attain cruising speed.
Small diesel turbos are also pretty good...same logic.
The only other thing to make them better would be a heavy flywheel for more torque, instead of the quick revving sporty car mentality.
My question is how can anyone in the position of an auto executives put forward such a bizarre idea of artificially raising gas prices and be so ignorant of the economic realities?
When exec Mike Jackson says, “If we migrate slowly over years to $4 or $5 a gallon, everybody will adjust, everybody will manage. It's not a problem,” he is showing us the short sighted thinking that took the US auto industry down the rat hole. Now he wants to use that same thinking to send the US economy down the rat hole.
I oppose such taxes, but agree they make more sense than the current regulatory regime (CAFE).
So the makers of the general motors shitbox hybrid thinks raising our taxes will win us over?Never by a gm anything.
What an idiot. With trucking costs going up because of high gas prices, we will all be paying for it plus our own gas......doesn’t anyone know how to think?....yikes what a stupid stunt..
Don’t worry the fed/guv will make sure it costs you just as much to own/operate one of these wunnerful electric/hybrid cars as it does your old gas guzzler.