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Establishing The Standard For Gas Conservation

By: GARKO

Many suggestions are flying around on solutions on how to save fossil fuel through conservation. Some folks have had the nerve to actually recommend penalties like Detroit Democrat Dingle’s 50 cents tax per 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 loaded with equipment who can only eek out 14 MPG with that rig or else be out on the street then he would certainly be against such a surcharge or excise tax.
What everybody does agree on is that we need to do something. The cost of oil yesterday was 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.
There hasn’t been a single refinery opened on American soil in over thirty years, so we can't do much about the supply side of the equation. What we can exercise control over, even on an individual level is demand, and this can be accomplished through various means of conservation.
Here are a few suggestions.
Mileage standards: The biggest broad stroke solution that we can effect as a country to wean ourselves from our oil troubles would be to significantly raise the bar on what new automobiles have to attain as a minimum MPG. The last increase was four years ago and it set the bar that new cars were required to get an average of 27.5 mpg and light trucks including SUVs 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 will now be required to raise average MPG for both cars and light trucks to 35 mpg by 2020.
That's good, but not nearly good enough. I say the nation's minimum mileage average should be no less than 50 mpg by 2020.
Naturally the automotive manufacturer industry will bitch and moan about how they can’t do that without making cars too expensive for most consumers, but that's bull. The Union of Concerned Scientists tells us that with the existing technology, cars would be raised up to 40 MPG minimum without have any significant impact on prices. And, besides, 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: Fifty-five saves fuel and lives. It was true then and it's true now. Don't like it? Tough.
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.
So these are just a few ideas out of many. 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 consumption?
Now, here is the best solution that all of us can do…
WATER4GAS is offering information for a fee which people can use at home to put together a small device which instills hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their car runs on.
The process makes smaller particles out of the ones that the system burns as fuel. Because of the smaller size it is able to use much more of it.
With WATER4GAS you can reasonably expect to reduce your fuel consumption by 12%. But many are obtaining 30-50% improvement or even more. Those goblets "musta" been pretty darn huge in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can reduce your fuel consumption.
It also helps reduce emissions significantly.
This information has been purchased by over 9000 individuals already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So that's a start!

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