"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Yes and very true. We had the prefect opportunity five years ago when
the CAFE standards were scheduled for an increase but our brilliant new
president decided not of implement them. If he had, about 80% of the US
vehicle fleet would be getting a couple more MPG which, as it turns out,
would exactly match the reduced gasoline output from Katrina.

So, of course, we wouldn't now be seeing a 30% increase in the price at
the pump if only Bush had implemented stricter mileage rules in 2000?

I'm afraid you're dreaming, Mike. We'd only have had more expensive cars
then AND the same, higher gas prices today.

We could be getting a ****load of better gas mileage if cities and towns
would synchronized their traffic signals. Of course, then they'd lose
revenue from fines for speeding (to beat constant stale yellow lights) or
from those beloved traffic cams (in which, on a national average) that have
been set at lights shortened from 7 seconds to 4.5. Also, it would alleviate
a lot a gridlock, and that would undercut the localities argument for even
more money and personnel.

It would also require a lot of traffic engineers to get off their lame asses
and do what they were trained to do. CAFE standards just let them
pontificate while exacerbating the situation.