Here is a plan to lower our oil consumption, what do you think?

Question

55 mph national speed limit woth zero tolerance.

Fines of 1% of weekly income for every MPH over. The guy with the $250,000 sports car going 90 mph could care less about a $250 ticket but 35% of a weeks income will slow him down! 3 Tickets and you can't drive for a year.

18 or older before you can drive. The roads will be safer and we will use far less gas.

We need to do far more than we are doing, but I think these two things could help in the short term.

What do you think? What are some other ways we as a country can use less gas?

Answer 1

Restrict car driving in the city except for public transportation bus, taxi, etc....

Answer 2

What we need is a law passed (more government for the left) to make it against the law for "Gorebal Warming" fans (leftists / marxists / democrats / progressives / treehuggers) to burn one drop of fuel.  These types (for the good of the "people and "change") would be required to either walk or use public transportation.  Next, deport approximately 20 million illegals (that would free up a LOT of fuel).  The world would be happy and the marxist "change" people would be ecstatic!  Fuel prices would be low due to demand and the left would be putting their convictions where their mouth is instead of constantly sniveling and devising plans to s***w everyone else!

Answer 3

i think the only way to get people off their gas-masks is to littrally force them off. stop pumping oil/gas/coal and trade in your SUV's for more green cars. people wont stop using gas unless their forced. thats just how we are...

Answer 4

Yeah let's impose big government to "burn less gas" right? Every other industrialized country in the world will laugh their a**es off at the U.S. with your plan. 55 MPH? lol, some cars come standard with over 250 HP now.

We need alternative energy sources (electric/hybrid/hydrogen), that's the solution.

Answer 5

I don't like it. So if I'm a full-time college student with no weekly income, but drive my parents' car, what would happen?

The plan is too hard to enforce. Police would be pulling people over left and right for less important things.

It's too difficult to do anything about it. I live in a county that doesn't have public transportation and jobs are too far away. Green cars are pretty expensive, especially since you pretty much have to buy them brand new. not everyone can afford to buy a new car.

Answer 6

Just the extra paperwork and administering alone would  require energy and resources. The more that government grows the more wasteful it gets and the more it sucks the life out of real innovation. You would do far more for the 'environment' by eliminating half  the "bans" and "regulations" that are imposed on our daily lives.

Answer 7

I think you would be the first to be pulled over.

Answer 8

Awl h**l, let's just go all the way back to the horse and buggy days and have lots of fertilizer......

Answer 9

The best solution is the creation of a National Mass transit system in every city of the country!  This way it is not necessary to drive.  The cost of gas will remain the same so the people who want to continue to drive will have to pay for the privilege to do so.  We also need to either have tolls on our road or add an additional tax to the gas to pay for the maintenance and creation of the roads.  This way the people who are paying for the roads are the ones who are using them!

We also need to take the tax breaks away from the oil companies and give them to the individuals who buy alternative fuel source vehicles, or energy producers (Such as wind, water and solar energy!).

Any or all of these things will help immensely!

Answer 10

I like that idea. Here's something else to add on to it:

We should try our best not to have children to help lower the population for a few years. Until we get this energy crisis solved, less people will mean less polution. France did that in the 1600's to prevent food depletion. They came up with the French Kiss as a substitute for s*x. Becasue we live in a day and age with birth control and such, we could still have relations without having children. And adoption rates would go up so that's an added bonus.

Also, the government should make a car-price cap on eco friendly cars such as hybrids to make them more practical for the common American to purchase.

Answer 11

Yep, every one of those ways would involve what? Government intervention. The Government is not the answer.

How about everyone must use public transportation? far fewer vehicles on the road.

The real answer is to allow the private sector to get innovative and allow them to develop cost effective alternative fuel vehicles. I have no problem driving around in a hydrogen powered vehicle as long as it costs the same or even less than what I am driving now.

The vehicles are too expensive to see any cost savings.

Answer 12

Terrible!  It's way too excessive.