Just raise the gas tax to $200 a gallon. That would slow them down.
mass motoring is lavishly subsidized. It’s socialism.
Hard to believe but gas taxes pay for less than 1/4 of roads.
When I was in Burbank a few months ago I noticed gas was really expensive, but premium was not much more expensive than regular.
Here in Kentucky, there is a 60 to 90 cent price difference between regular and premium. This is the one thing I hate about my FR-S that requires a tank of gas every two days.
I’ll never own another car that burns premium unless I win the lotto - which means someome will have to donate a ticket for me, since I refuse to buy one.
But what about the solar panels that are used to produce electricity, the electricity used for electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen being collected and stored for use in an internal combustion engine, for those hours of darkness when literally, the sun doesn’t shine.
Could be made to be “sustainable”. Kind of a Rube Goldberg solution for a problem that does not have to be nearly that complicated.
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells would be a lot more efficient than internal-combustion engines in many applications, however.
Replace gasoline as a motor fuel with natural gas, right off the home distribution system, or as compressed natural gas available at convenient service stations.
Even Diesel engines can use compressed natural gas as a supplementary fuel source (still need the Diesel fuel to assure compression-ignition, though). Internal combustion engines all accelerate or respond to load by overfueling, and compressed natural gas fulfills this requirement well.