Actually the market would take care of the issue if the government wasn't interfering with it. However, the market is not allowed to deal with the issue, because it is continually constrained by...drum roll please....government regulation.

If the government wasn't dictating how cars should be made with CAFE standards, Saftey standards, union regulations, etc... then the market would be free to invest in the best technologies to create the most efficient cars. In fact, the auto makers would be forced to do so, because they would have to compete with the companies that were using the best technologies and manufacturing techniques.

The real issue is that the market doesn't want what you, and all your socialist treehugger friends are trying to force down their throats. Here's economic principle #1: When free of govt. regulation, companies produce the goods and services people want. Americans want big powerful cars. If oil prices go up, then people will want more efficient cars, or cars running on alternative fuels. If you attempt to force people into buying what they don't want, which is our current state, then the market stagnates. The government is the problem, not the solution.

Please study some economics, and try to give some good arguments to back up your reasoning instead of posting unfounded, erroneous economic theories which have repeatedly been proven false throughout the world.

Wait..let me get this right...

You claim geek credentials because you edit iptables by hand and then turn around and claim that Windows is more usable and you prefer it to BROWSE THE INTERNET?!?!?!

BWAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!!

So, I guess you like slowing your system down to a crawl with antivirus software just so you can use Windows to browse the Internet.

The Internet itself is no different in Linux that in Windows, and I personally find Linux to be far more usable when browsing the Internet than Windows.

Turn your cracker jack geek card in at the door. Epic Fail.