On 1/8/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a big difference in our country versus others. The efficiency > requirements in other countries demand that the cars be more fuel > efficient. Not so here.
The biggest difference is (over)regulation vs free markets. In the US, as prices have gone up, huge research into alternate fuels has begun. Some regulatory requirements for efficient fuels make sense, but I would caution ANY more government involvement in our personal lifestyle choices than is really needed. We're pretty far down that slippery slope already. There are plenty of things that can be done to encourage conservation and alternative fuel research without impacting our personal freedoms. There's a huge difference between MAKING someone do Something Good and making the Something Good so attractive/cheap/cool that you WANT it. > And some people do predict we will see that a hundred years from > now. In the meantime, we just need to do what we can to slow the > progress of the damage until we get there. ....we do need people talking about how to modify our behaviors to reduce the impact of our consumption. It's not an either or thing. So you go girl. -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223998 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
