Responsibility

Do Low Gas Prices Signal Big Bucks on the Horizon for GPS Manufacturers?

To encourage cooperative and effective means to lower dependence on oil and adverse effects on the enviroment, several simple schemes can be considered:

1. Each community should set both % mileage reduction and traffic conjestion goals and use various means for achieving them, since each community's need and situation are different. Reduction of conjection is important since 1 fast highway mile is not the same as 1 slow conjested mile. Award or penalty can be added to gas tax.

2. Individual's efforts should be awarded. An award equation can be setup for low mileage that include factors based on need, such as distance from work, distance from school, and distance from malls. Another special factor should also award those who make the choice to live closeby.

We probably want simple methods (e.g. company or inspection or repair shop verified mileage on car) to achieve these goals, instead of expensive or complicate means that may create other kinds of wastes or in-efficiency. An 10% improvement in efficiency in the economy means a 10% return, versus a 10% increase of in-efficiency with adverse effects.

Small reductions in oil consumption will accumulate into a large reduction of wasted resources, with big significance.