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So, I was surfing the ol’ cable TV looking for something decent to watch.  It turns out that it is actually very rare to find an interesting movie on all the damn movie channels we have.  Anyway, it turns out that if there was a 5-10% drop in gasoline consumption, prices would drop significantly.  That’s what the guy on CBS said anyway.  He was saying something about how the government has been calling for US consumers of gasoline to start cutting back.  I’ve even heard of Congress placing HIGHER tax prices on oil-based products to help “ween the American consumer off petroleum.”  What the fuck?  Ok, I admit American gasoline consumption is terrible, but I think that the two people in my household (myself and Lexy) do just about as much as we can.  We both drive high MPG cars, well technically we are driving my car as her Beetle has this problem with a horribly designed brake light switch.  So that’s even better.  You wanna know who the fucking problem is?  Car companies who make SUVs.  Every fucking car company touts their new SUV and how good with gasoline it is.  They never tell you HOW good, but that it is.  Well, I don’t consider 14 MPG good.  I consider 28 to 33 good.  You know what needs to happen?  The US government needs to deliver an ultimatum to the gasoline and car companies.  This ultimatum should go along the lines of this: Car companies, you should deliver at least two hydrogen fuel cell vehicles PER COMPANY to the market by 2010.  Oil companies, provide at least one hydrogen pump to all corporate-owned gas stations by 2010.  This ultimatum should be do these things or we fine your company 2.5 billion dollars.  You wanna know why the US consumer hasn’t lowered their consumption of oil?  WE DON’T HAVE ANY OTHER FUCKING CHOICE YOU FUCKING DOUCHEBAGS!!  All these fucking idiots driving their damn SUVs around for minor errands are the real criminals.  Don’t blame the Middle East.  They are pumping oil at above their safe barrel per day limit and we are consuming it faster and faster.  It’s not your everyday consumer who has a decent car, it’s the car companies frontlining their SUVs and trucks and the gullible fucking American public buying them up like candy thinking they need them.  I’m not a hippy, as everyone knows, so I’m not about to switch over to bio-diesel as I don’t have a diesel power vehicle.  Electric power isn’t good for Midwest drivers, but hydrogen fuel cells are where it’s at.  Especially if you do a hydrogen/electric hybrid.  Hell, if Germany can run their new submarines off diesel engines for surface travel, electric engines for a day or two underwater, and hydrogen/oxygen fuel cells for up to two weeks underwater, I think they can take a 1200 pound car and make it run off hydrogen and electricity.  We need another choice in order to lower our country’s dependency on petroleum.  We can’t just stop using the mode of travel our country has been depending on for almost a 100 years.  Now, if we take that same mode of travel and “reinvent” it, then ok, we’re good.  I’m sure some of you know my reasons for wanting hydrogen fuel research pushed to the front of the line.  In case you don’t, well, there’s something to be said about fueling vehicles off the most common and abundant element in the UNIVERSE.  If you run a world of vehicles off hydrogen and fund more space exploration research to find and gather rich sources of hydrogen, we will NEVER run out of fuel.  Or we could start fueling cars off water by running the water through electrolysis to split the hydrogen and oxygen and burn that.  It would be relatively simple to split the two as the hydrogen and oxygen coming off would be have ionic charges.  There are so many options we could be taking advantage of to help relieve the stress off the oil fields.  I guess I’m turning into one of those conspiracy theory nuts, but hey, I’ve uncovered a couple that are totally plausible.  I won’t go over them as most of you who read this already have heard them and besides, I’m in the process of watching another one take place.  We’ll talk more on that later.