How in the world are you going to cut American gasoline use in half over the next decade?
As for ending corporate welfare, if that is what I think it is its following Saul Alinsky to the letter.
From:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theclowardpivenstrategypoe.html
“They’ll be more people, (mostly because we will let in illegal aliens by the droves).In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.”
Eight or nine dollars a gallon ought to do the trick.
In 2006, U.S. oil companies paid more in corporate income taxes to the IRS ($138 billion) than the individual taxes paid by the more than 100 million individual taxpayers in the bottom 75% of all individual taxpayers
(that doesn’t include special oil severance, sales and use taxes companies also had to pay.)
http://soundmoneytips.com/article/78793-oil-companies-paid-more-than-bottom-75-of-taxpayers
So much for Big Oil being evil, oh and lets not forget that Big Oil is owned by the middle class, through pension funds, 401k’s, etc.
How do the Einsteins in Congress think we can make up the difference??? We are F****D!!