Should windfall oil profits be taxed and used to fund alternative energy?
The technology already exists to make cars from composite material (thread and nylon laminate) which is stronger than steel but weighs 1/4 less than steel. Horizontal wind generators and /or solar cells on everyone’s rooftop will charge batteries in our garages. Our hybrid gas/electric cars would recharge for free overnight and gas consumption could easily drop by 75% for most city commuters. Many would never use the gas part of their hybrid at all. The technology already exists. All we need is a democrat in office who will implement a real national energy policy instead of a “By the oil corp, for the oil corp” policy that the GOP insists on forcing on us. ha ha ha ha…. sure, tax the 8 cents collected on a dollar’s sale of gas and do nothing about the 42 cents of government taxes collected. But let me tell you when you do: A) It has a similar effect to taxing cigarettes for health insurance. The consumption (and in the case of oil production) goes down, which means the revenue goes dow
