Thursday, November 6, 2008
To: Barak Obama
Cc: Rick Wagoner, General Motors CEO
Subject: An opportunity for your first hundred days.
Congratulations on your election.
The USA can regain pre-eminence in automotive transportation by forming a working partnership between your new administration and our automobile manufacturers in which General Motors can play a leadership role.
This Partnership would agree that:
· After a fixed date all new gasoline powered vehicles produced in the US would be flex-fuel capable, burning alcohol as well as gasoline. (Cost: about $100?)
For a number of years US gasoline stations will be partially subsidized to offer alcohol as well as gasoline, by using state and federal gas tax revenue. (And perhaps, free or at cost, compressed air for the new air car).
· Hybrid flex-fuel and electric car production would be encouraged and perhaps subsidized.
· Low-cost electricity production from zero-carbon sources including nuclear, hydrogen and wind would be encouraged. (Perhaps subsidized looking long-term toward a future full of electric cars?)
This proposal for a US Working Partnership for Automotive Transportation is a suggestion based on information received from Anne Korin, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning at IAGS, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Set America Free and Pickens Plan.
If this makes sense to you, I suggest that you pass this on to your friends, contact your two RepresentativeUS Senators in our US Congress and follow how they vote on legislation at Thomas.
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