CutCrude : Technology

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Fifty years ago cars got 20 mpg. Too many still do. Too many do worse.
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This is an indictment of us all.
An improvement of 1 miserable mpg per year would have yielded cars getting near 100 mpg.

Here's a thought:
Given terrorism, wars, environmental costs, homeland security and the like we have to do some new math.
Used to be, the justification for action used to be spending a like amount or less to replace something. In this case $65 for a barrel of crude.
Do the math: add the $1 trillion spent in Iraq to the cost of imported oil for the period and re-divide by the number of barrels we imported.
Assuming 10 million barrels/day for some 1400 days comes to an additional $70 per barrel.
This is unacceptably ridiculous.
Allowing for other costs we could spend twice the cost per barrel to eliminate need for a barrel of crude.

Existing Technology
Japan is building homes that are 3X as energy efficient as America.
France has a 300mph commuter train.
Sweden makes a Saab automobile that runs on fuel from cow entrails.
We do not have to invest a dime to exploit existing technology - just use it!

Alternative Suggestion I
If college kids can buy $25,000 worth of widgets at full retail, quantity 1 price, and use them to get cars to go 100 mpg, why not Detroit?
A little R&D effort, improve the procedure, open franchised shops nationwide, use economy of scale to get pricing down and presto, there is a market of millions of customers [read cars]. Of course, the customer gets a tax break. Eureka! We can make saving gas profitable and patriotic. The difference between 20 mpg and 100 mpg at $3/gallon is 12 cents a mile.
Click click click click click click click click click click click click goes the speedometer recpturing the cost of the retrofit!
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down goes the need for imported crude oil.

Alternative Suggestion II
Can somebody please invent an economical, modular, one-kind-fits-all, easy to assemble monorail system. [Kinda like the Liberty ships of WWII] Think outside the box and git her done! There are thousands of corridors around America where a simple Point A to Point B monorail would save gobs of gas. A corridor might serve a suburban parking lot and 5000 jobs in a 2 block radius downtown or 2 cities or network several cities.
Think of the tax credits and profits.
I want me one of these.

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Memo to America : Wake up! It is time to go to work!
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There is nobody else that gives a damn: just you and me!

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