To followup on my missive just posted to Squantos, some creative thinking might be able to turn this crisis against hussein and the marxist. To wit, brazenly refuse to follow the EPA regulations and build bigger, gas-hungry cars to increase the demand for petroleum products. The American public (or at least the smart ones) have a love affair with big, powerful cars. Allow that market segment to expand...and voila! Problem solved.
Yes on the powerful rides...... I put together “sleepers”
06 cummins with compound turbos, billet transmission, efi programming and it eats fuel at 765 HP as well as mustangs corvettes. Same for a 13 Tundra 2WD crewmaxx with the supercharger and a killer chiller set up .....562 HP with again an EFI tune. My real sleeper is a 78 malibu gramma grocery getter thats pure grayman in looks but a street rod that runs 9’s at the track . All were built with reliability being key as daily drivers but powerful enough for on ramps and Dallas / Ft Worth interstate events when I get out of the Panhandle....
Fuel cost come down then Im a happy camper.......:o)
not sure if I would buy anything new but love the ideas ya put forth.....Stay Safe !!!
“To wit, brazenly refuse to follow the EPA regulations and build bigger, gas-hungry cars to increase the demand for petroleum products.”
Already being done. Just look at the pickup market. Gas hogs most of them, not to mention extremely expensive. There is another issue no one has mentioned, and that is the two to four year ongoing plan by some politicians to raise the gas tax to pay for roads and bridges falling down.
The plan so far is picking up steam in many state legislatures based on many issues key of which is tax revenue from that gas tax is falling because we aren’t driving as much due to the high cost, and better overall fuel economy.
Last year WY a very conservative state raised their gas tax by fourteen cents. I don’t pretend to know the end of the story, but any improvement in gasoline prices could be neutered by an increase in taxes, for the so called infrastructure of roads and bridges needing repair and maintenance.
Forgotten in the story is the Federal Transportation Trust Fund, without trust or funds drained dry by the US Congress and their spending habits. So State legislatures are aiming at their own citizens to solve that problem rather than holding the congress responsible for the problem and a possible solution that doesn’t kill the geese holding the golden eggs. That would be US.