America’s Energy Future. Better Over a Bushel Than Over a Barrel

…Certainly one of the most effective and immediate ways to break our “oil addiction” is to legislate a cap on the nation’s gasoline consumption and to fairly distribute the available gasoline through a rationing or a voucher distribution program (see post “Capping America’s Gasoline Consumption Through a Manageable ‘Eco-Fuels Program’-…” 01.08.07). In spite of its many attributes given the manifold dynamic of our looming energy crisis, one can fairly ask who among the myriad of presidential hopefuls jousting through Iowa these past weeks even uttered let alone permitted the words “gasoline rationing” to pass their lips. Such is its perception by mainstream politicians and much of the media as being unthinkable policy, and politically anathema. Yet times they are a-changing! America’s public may be well ahead of our politicians in comprehending that a sea change in direction is now imperative.


Consider the benefits of a gas rationing or voucher distribution program: