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The problem is always the same. We put the burden on the auto manufacturers to "push" fuel efficient cars on the buyers who don't even have the slightest care in the world about fuel efficiency with gas at $2.39. You can't force a retailer to sell something that people don't want to buy. And still stay in buisiness. If the goal is to get people to quit burning up so much fossil fuel, it must be heavily taxed. And then the windfall can be given back to the working classes in other breaks so they can still get to work such as the subsidies that are currently running on electric cars and programs like the successful "cash fo clunkers" to get these old pick up trucks off of the road. Windfall money would also be available for loans to green energy developement, mass transit, efficient housing, food subsidies. A carbon tax doesn't have to hurt the poor and middle class. And then the rich guys can drive whatever they want and gripe every time they fill up to pay for the mess they are making. Many people have been saying it for a long time and now people like Musk have a loud voice. Start phasing in a big carbon tax now.
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