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Establishing The Pace For Gas Conservation

By: GARKO

Good and bad ideas abound on solutions on how to use less gas through conservation. Some folks have been bold and dumb enough to actually recommend ideas like Detroit Democrat Dingle’s fifty cents excise tax on every gallon of gasoline. That surprises me but I guess that it makes more sense to some than to others. If you talk to a construction worker driving a work truck full of equipment who has to get 14 MPG driving that monster or else be out on the street then he would certainly know pain from such a surcharge or excise tax.
What everybody does agree on is that we can’t just keep on going as we have been. Oil was trading Tuesday at an astronomical $108 a barrel after earlier surpassing $109.
At the pump, the national average for a gallon of regular gas hit a record $3.227. The average in California was $3.581 a gallon.
The United States imports about two-thirds of its oil, so we can't do much about the supply side of the equation. What we are able to control is demand, and this can be accomplished through various means of conservation.
Here are a few suggestions.
Mileage standards: The most effective thing we can do as a nation to wean ourselves from our oil troubles would be to significantly raise the bar on what new cars are required to attain as a minimum MPG. The last increase was four years ago and it set the bar that new cars had to average at least 27.5 mpg and light trucks such as sport utility vehicles 20.7 mpg.
Late last year, Congress enacted the first substantial overhaul of so-called corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standards since the 1970s. Automakers are to meet a new standard to raise average mileage for both cars and light trucks to 35 mpg by 2020.
I say that they can do better. I say it should be set at fifty miles per gallon and no lower by 2020.
Sure, automakers will whine that this is an unreasonable goal or that it would make their products too expensive for most consumers, don’t buy it. The Union of Concerned Scientists says existing technology, such as advanced metals and transmissions, could raise vehicle mileage to an average of 40 mpg without significantly affecting prices. And, truth be told, thee and me both know that they have those computer sensors on cars made after 1995 rigged so that cars can only get so much MPG. They just need to unhack them!
More than likely the Japanese and South Koreans are all set and ready to meet whatever requirements that we set for them.
Lower speed limits: It is a known fact that above the mid 50s MPH, the consumption of gas rises dramatically. That’s just waste.
Telecommuting: Businesses that allow their employees to do at least part of their work from home should certainly be awarded tax breaks.
In L.A. specifically, tax breaks also should be offered to businesses that create branch offices closer to workers' homes, thus easing commutes and gas costs.
These are a few ideas. No shortage of ideas exists, this is for sure. Some are broad stroke type ideas and some are things that we can enact on an individual basis. Some of the ideas are brilliant, some of them ware workable and some of them uh… neeed more work!
So what do you do if you want to reduce your fuel usage?
Here is the best that I know of…
WATER4GAS is offering information at a low price which car owners can use in their garage or wherever to create a small device which infuses hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their car or truck runs on.
The process makes smaller particles out of the ones that the system uses as fuel. Therefore the system gets to use considerably more of it.
With WATER4GAS you can minimumly expect to reduce your fuel usage by 12%. In reality though many are obtaining thirty to fifty percent improvement or even more. Those particles must have been pretty "blankin'" huge in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can reduce your fuel usage.
It also helps reduce emissions significantly.
This package of info has been purchased by over 9000 car owners already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So that's a start!

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Entrepreneur, consumer advocate, songwriter and activist, GARKO, advises that presently you cannot buy a car that runs on water but that the ones coming on the market in the next five years are planning to charge too much for the conversion. But he can show you how to convert your car to run on water which is the best engine modification to save gas For a list of current fuel prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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