"...outlaw windshields so everyone can feel for themselves how much wind resistance..."

We'd all look like the AFLAC duck, jowls flapping in the wind!!!

"Pigpen, you wanna back off a few miles, them hogs are gettin' intense up here."

Or something like that, CW McCall, Convoy...

I just remembered, I inherited some Chevron stock from my dad, so everyone please buy Chevron/Texaco, it will make me rich in no time at all...

Forcing people to slow down would probably seriously lower highway accident rates. I think that as cars get safer, people drive faster and more erratically thus accidents rates are about the same, by making cars feel less safe it would force people to drive safer.

Couple of ideas to help increase gas mileage. The first one works for any vehicle. The second one will probably only work for newer vehicles if at all. It's worth trying if you've got fuel injection. I'm managing to get about 120% of EPA mileage with them.

Anticipate stop lights/signs, etc. Let the vehicle coast to a stop as much as possible. The brake pedal cost gas & maintenance.

Turn off the engine instead of idling for any length of time.

Convoy was one of the 45s in our meager collection of vinyl growing up. We listened to that maybe a thousand times. I don't know why, as none of our crowd was particularly smitten with the concept of overland frieght services back then. I think we got it cuz dad said it was acceptable for us to listen to, go figure that one...

10-4...

There's also a very large field mapped out in northern michigan, that's a Shell Oil secret (oops!!). There are many such discoveries already made and in waiting.

The strategic plan is to use everybody else's oil first ad then start sucking up our reserves. That is from lessons learned from the long supply lines of WWII.

That supply line lesson is why the Inerstate Highway System has been built.

Shell Oil, that's a Dutch company, right? No offense to our Forum memmbers.

Just because it is in the U.S. doesn't mean it is ours.

Also, as was previously stated; oil is an international commodity. Unless the Government nationalizes the American oil industry (gosh, I hope not!!!) then we will be at the whim of the "what the market will bear" part of the equation.

Either way, it is giong to be an expensive move for me when I have to drive a moving truck from Oklahoma to Upstate New York this summer. GGGRRRR!

"Gas in the UK is about $8.00 a gallon."

Only $2.80 of that is actually the cost of gas, the rest is taxes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25tue1.html

Sue