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Taking Effective Action Against Gasoline Prices

By: GARKO

Many concepts are flying around on how to save gas through conservation. Some individuals have had the nerve to actually recommend penalties like Detroit Democrat Dingle’s 50 cents excise 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 has to get 14 MPG driving that monster or else have no job then he would certainly be hurt greatly by such a surcharge or excise tax.
But clearly we need to do something. The cost of oil yesterday was above $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.
Not one new refinery has been built in America since the 1970s, so we can't do much about the supply side of the equation. What we can control is demand, and this can be accomplished via greater fuel efficiency, conservation and increased transit alternatives.
Here are a few suggestions.
Demanding new mileage requirements from Detroit: The biggest broad stroke solution that we can effect as a country to wean ourselves from our oil troubles would be to substantially raise the minimum required mileage for new vehicles. 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 in more than 30 years. 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 the nation's minimum mileage average should be no less than 50 mpg by 2020.
Naturally the automotive manufacturer corporations will bitch and moan about how they can’t do that without making cars too expensive for most consumers, that’s bunk. 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: It is a known fact that above the mid 50s MPH, the consumption of gas rises dramatically. That’s just waste.
Telecommuting: Tax breaks should be given to businesses to encourage them to allow their employees to work from home.
As spread out and sprawling as Los Angeles is, for example, any business that opens offices in different parts of the city should be given tax breaks. This would lessen congestion and waste of fuel and also help the commercial real estate market
These are a few ideas. Ideas is something that there is no scarcity of. 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 increase your fuel economy?
Here is the best that I know of…
WATER4GAS is offering information for a fee which consumers can use in their garage or wherever to build a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their vehicle runs on.
What this does is make smaller particles out of the particles that the system uses as fuel. Because of the smaller size the system is able to use much more of the gasoline.
By doing this you can reasonably expect to increase your fuel economy by 12%. In reality though many are getting 30-50% improvement or significantly more. Those particles must have been pretty darn big in some engines before. But with W4G they are made usable so you can increase your fuel economy.
It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner.
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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Activist, songwriter, consumer advocate and entrepreneur, GARKO, has found that adding water to the gasoline in your car just dilutes your gasoline :). But he can show you one of the best alternative ways to save on gas which is to by adding hydrogen into the fuel system For a list of current fuel prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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