No one believes Congress would eliminate state and local tax deductions.

But dipping into available highway money would delay other projects, Leggett said. Since cable is the cheapest part of a transmission line, I think this would be a practical way to really increase the capability of the current system in a way that we can afford. Unfortunately, this is the ultimate goal of the previous policy pronouncements and will remain so until a universal recognition of the impending peak-oil problem is declared. Frankfurt Auto Show Are European automakers ready to get serious about hybrid technology? The Times's Mark Landler looks at the latest trends in the industry. In 1990, two years after Reagan left office, oil consumption was still less than 17 million barrels per day.

Stop blaming politicians and begin to realize that the core problem is the people themselves, all of them, voters and non-voters alike and their unrealistic expectations. You have to get the ball rolling against inertia somehow.

If they are exempted from having to change especially the people who moved out to the country but work in town, which is a lifestyle decision and not a necessity then someone else has to take a bigger cut. The races have been conceded and the Senate will in fact be in the hands of the Democrats counting Lieberman and Sanders.

Short term reductions have no prayer for solving either peak oil or climate change. In short, the only way to effect the changes necesary is to make foreign energy more expensive and thus all energy more expensive.

The world price of oil is essentially independent of the taxing policies of most countries, since most countries consume only a small fraction of the amount of oil sold. Just wait till after the election i can almost guarantee the prices will sky rocket.