Five Dollar Gas

Hmm - Does Italy only have a couple of cars for sale? Here in the US I bought a sedan to save on gas mileage (close to 30mpg) rather than a hybrid or SUV. Please clarify what you meanby choice. Oil consumption is not sustainable and never was. That's the problem with fossil fuels :) - Thor

giorgio gaviraghi wrote: Hi Thor
i prefer by far free market choice, but we don't have
it in the car industry, consumers don't have any
choice
and in the car situation these lack of choice are
leading us to an unsuatainable condition for the
planet and the environment
alrady we are experiencing daily stops by decree to
car traffic in major cities to decrease pollution
car companies, pushed by free market immediate profit
goals, are unable to propose what the public want and
the world needs
cars that don't utilise gas as we know it, but
alternative clean fuels from renewable sources
this sound obvious but the auto industry seems unable
to satisfy such request with any serious proposal
can you imagine 10 years from now 200 million new cars
from china polluting and using the scarse oil
reserves?
> Hi Giorgio,
>
> "to stop this folly we need new drastic fuel saving
> rules and governmental intervention for non
> polluting
> fuels"
>
> Am I correct in that you prefer government
> regulation over free market choices?
>
> I'm not inclined to believe that oil is going to
> last any longer if people conserve it by the strange
> reasoning that someone in China will make up the
> difference.
>
> In the case of smog and other pollution, do you
> include carbon dioxide?
> - Thor
>
> i live in a country where gas is five dollars a
> gallon
> I can assure you the following:
> freeways are still congested
> parking is nearly impossible
> pollution is growing
> traffic have never been worse
> automakers understand this very well because if not
> they would star manufacturibg cars that save gas, or
> on alternate clean fuels or much safer
> despite all this and the growing car prices they are
> still selling
> to stop this folly we need new drastic fuel saving
> rules and governmental intervention for non
> polluting
> fuels
> Tr
>
> regards
> Giorgio
>
> > Good question. Probably not enough to spur
> interest
> > in space development yet there will be other
> > interesting effects. Here are my three picks.
> >
> > 1) The freeways will likely not be as congested.
> > 2) There will be a lot more bankruptcies by highly
> > leveraged people.
> > 3) The price will fluctuate wildly due to cutbacks
> > and recessions around the world.
> >
> > - Thor
> >
> > Mitchell James
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> > Looking at the current increase in gasoline prices
> > it is not
> > inconceivable that we could hit five dollars a
> > gallon in the U.S.A.
> > I am wondering what interesting effects this will
> > cause.
> > Mitchell James
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