Originally posted by Mad_Medeiros:
damn you americans complain to much!!!

I'm paying almost a DOLLER A LITRE...

which equals to somewhere around 3.00 a gallon.



No kiddin'.

In Vancouver, it's a ~$1.10/liter. And I'm getting horrible (18mpg) mileage.

Drilling in the Alaska is using a bandaid to fix a severed juggular. It'll help temporarily but the problem still looms.

There needs to be a president with balls to grab America by the throat and drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st centure where cheap gas is no longer a guarantee. It'd be nice to see an administration focus the country on conservationism and r&d on future tech.

Bush already made me happy about Iraq, now he just needs to grow some balls and do that to the country.

IMHO: The government should increase the gas tax by 15c yearly for the next 10 - 20 years to slowly transition the country. Offer tax and insurance discount incentives to smaller displacement (say, cutoff at 2500cc ), and even more incentives to alternative transport (biodiesel, diesel, hybrids). The increased tax should offset the incentives to equal a zero-sum loss. Also remove the 'light truck' exception from emissions and gas guzzler taxes and create a bussiness exception where you are exempt from any of those things if the suv/truck is used for business purposes.

Fasttrack the low-sulpher diesel migration as well so the modern diesel engines from Europe make their way over.