You had me on-board with EO #s one and two, then you had to go all socialist and try and control what the market can make and what the consumer can buy.
Naah! Go buy any damn thing you want. We all ready pay for registration by weight. How's this for a compromise: Take the environmental regulations off diesel. If they are clean enough nowadays for the EU, they are clean enough for me.
In my warped motorhead world view, diesel is the answer, baby. Along with ending "boutique blends, ethanol subsidies, and definitely shooting every third environmentalist for a week.
Compromise? OK. We'll shoot every 5th environmentalist, but extend it for two weeks. OK?
Sociological-philolopsidigal problem" : When gas was cheap, hoi polloi in their abysmal ignorance ignored thermal efficiency. What we need to rescue this lash-up right now is cheap energy AND efficiency. I.E., The $2-buck-chuck diesel PLUS 50 mpg, just like my VW TDI, which is one sweet machine and my old MB 300TD which has become rather idiosyncratic after 600,000 miles.
One other thing: Hydrocarbon fuels are what we got for the next century at least. It will take at least that long to develop and switch us over to hydrogen or whatever is next ,,, if anything. These "alternatives," are just so much codswallop.
Taking back my compromise offer ... it's off the table. I will shoot every other environmentalist for three weeks.