1.) Back in August of 2008, Nancy Pelosi denied a vote to open more areas for domestic oil drilling and stated that it is her duty to use her position to save the planet.

2.) Later, shortly gas prices fell almost instantly from over $4 per gallon to under $2 per gallon, a congressional committee spokesperson stated $4 per gallon gasoline is the breaking point at which people change their driving habits," and proposed that gasoline be taxed to $4 of $5 per gallon in order to reduce carbon emissions. Basically, when gas got to be too expensive, people sold their suv's and bought "green" cars like these kooks wanted.

3.) Last week, while all of the news reports were focusing on the swine flu hysteria, Bill Ford, President of Ford Motor Company, took advantage of the distraction to ask Washington to tax gasoline to $3.50 or $4.00 per gallon so that they would know what to expect and what kind of cars to produce.

4.) This week Ford announced that they would be sinking $550 million into a former truck plant to begin producing an all electric Ford Focus. These things have not really caught on here in the States because many of us drive more than 50 miles in a day and we do still like driving larger and mostly safer vehicles.

5.) The only way that an automotive manufacturer can comply with impossible government regulations aimed at reducing "Global Warming," a theory widely disputed by much of the scientific community, is to force the majority of us to sell our average fuel economy vehicles and buy some 50 mile per charge crap that the government would like to force down our throats. I don't know about you but that would get me to work and then about half of the way home. Doesn't quite work? I believe that Ford is giving the government what they want in a "zero emissions" (until you plug the thing in of course) vehicle and the government will give them $4 per gallon gas to force people into buying said cars. But wait, most people cannot afford to ditch their old cars in this economy so I'm sure that the government will propose some kind of "credit" to help the impoverished among us live in a more environmentally friendly manner. I hope that the people riot from ocean to ocean and knock down the doors of the Capital Building when their representatives impose this confiscatory tax on them. Who do they work for anyway? Why do we even call them "Representatives" anymore? Change anyone?

Aubrey