Re:Actions ? (Score 1)

There are practical things that *could* be done, like increasing tax on fuel to promote efficient usage . . . Which won't solve anything. It'll just cause the poorest people in the nation to have even less discretionary income. It's not the nation's $18,000/year citizens who are buying H2's. They're driving pickups and old cars with shitty gas mileage.

No no, you are missing the point. The idea is to get rid of the massive subsidies currently supporting the oil/gas/automotive industry. That money currently subsidizing the TRUE cost of driving (mineral/resource extraction, carbon emissions, greenspace lost to highways, cost of road construction/maintenance, AS WELL AS the TRUE cost of fuel) could be redirected to green alternatives (wind, solar, geothermal etcetc) thereby encouraging industry to invest in R&D for these greener, sustainable alternatives.

Its not as simple as higher fuel cost == less consumption. Its about steering industry in the right direction with tax incentives.

I hate to urinate in your Kashi Go-Lean, but SUVs are not destroying the environment, and their contribution to global warming, if any, is statistically insignificant.

You sir (or madam), are ignorant.