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So, Regarding The Time Frame, I'm Only Too Willing To Admit That My Crystal Ball, Like Everybody Else's, Is Cracked. If I Could Predict Precisely, I Would Have Started Predicting The Stock Market And Would Now Be Living With A Bunch Of Young Women On Bora Bora, Having Bought It.

You Take The Huge Income That Comes With A Big Gas Tax, And You Use It To Pay Off Regressive Taxes Like The Fica [federal Insurance Contributions Act] Tax. You Can Help The Poor In Other Ways Besides Giving Them Cheap Gas. You Want To Send The Message That People Want To Be As Efficient As Possible Using Gasoline Until We Can Transition Away From That Need Entirely.

My First Policy Move Would Be To Try To Get A Conversation Going In The Us About What People Stand For And What We Really Want. Do We Want To Keep Adding People To The World And To Our Country Until We Move To A Battery-chicken Kind Of Existence And Then Collapse? Or Do We Want To Think Hard About What Really Is Valuable To Us, And Figure Out How Many People We Can Supply That To Sustainably?

If We Were Redesigning Around People Instead Of Around Automobiles, Which I Think The Market Is More Or Less Going To Do, Although Too Slowly, Than I'd Be A Lot Cheerier.

Chinese Are Already More On Board Than We Are. China Is The Only Country That Actually Discussed In Formal Government Documents How Important It Is To Control The Size Of Your Populations If You’re Going To Limit Emissions.