Reply #31: Well we could come up with all kinds of scenarios like the SCOTUS [View All]

[Mountainman]

will not allow oil to be regulated.

I seems to me a natural occurrence that people will look for alternatives when it becomes economically feasible. They may not find them but they will look.

In my perfect world, the government would compete with private industry to make such fuel efficient autos and sell them at prices the people can afford thus forcing the auto industry to jump on the band wagon. I think in the interest of the common good, the government should do what private industry won't do because they can manipulate the supply of things. Germany built the Volkswagen and Roosevelt started the CCC to build infrastructure. Lets do the same.