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[quote user="Andy-UP"]However we have done nothing to try and alter the amount of trucks on our interstates that are getting 5.8MPG hauling our merchandise. [/quote]   What is your evidence that we have done nothing? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> I submit that your statement is untrue, and that there is a great concern and R&D effort in the engine development and transportation industry seeking to find ways to get the highest fuel economy from trucks.  Every thinker out there will be handsomely rewarded by the market receptivity to any viable way of increasing fuel economy, so there is enormous incentive.  All of the best talent in the world is being applied to solving the problem.  It is fallacious to assume that just because a problem has not been solved, nobody is trying to solve it. <o:p></o:p> Other than your repetitive use of the term, we, you have not been clear about exactly how the objectives you wish for should be accomplished.  You speak of mandates, priorities, and requirements.  I hear this line of thinking all the time insisting that the greater good can only be served by some central planning government bureaucracy directing the collective public effort.   You refer to this philosophy when you begin by basing your objective on the same principles being currently used to solve the employment problem in this country, which happens to be one of the boldest economic experiments in world history.  We will soon know the results, which will either support or repudiate the Keynesian economic theory and its relationship with the philosophy of central planning.  I think we should wait for those results before we revolutionize the transportation industry as a public, collective effort.
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