If you ran the world...

...how would you end America's dependence on foreign oil?

Don't limit yourself to just policy, either. Remember, you're running the world, so you can change the way cities are designed, you can have the courts do your bidding.

Any solution you can come up with, post it on this thread.


I'll start: instead of federal dollars going exclusively to repair roads, an ever-increasing portion should be provided for public transportation. Keep fixing the roads, but make public transportation the priority everywhere.

BTW, I live in L.A., we don;t have public transportation!

I read some place that they were going 'green' and that was 30/40 or so years ago. They have set up things. Germany I believe was really into all this as in the early 1950's they saw the writing on the wall and they were re-building a country almost from the ground up. See if you can find some thing on that on the internet. It went into how they were building building and the whole thing. They were even watching such things as dumping old TV. Funny when I lived in Alaska in the 70's and 80's all the city buses came from Germany. Some one in that country was thinking about how things had to work and I am willing to bet he did not make 300/400% more than his workers.

thanks

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/10/brazil.ethanol.example.ap/index.html">Brazil leading world in effort to boost use of ethanol-CNN

Burning it contributes to climate change and shelters us from the reality that our way of life must change. Growing it prevents growing trees that can begin to sequester carbon. I don't mention the food issue because it really washes into the general problem of land misuse.

But, Brazil doesn't use the same source for ethanol that we don't use.

mitigate the problems, except to the extent that a higher-carbon source allows use of less land. And I'm only guessing that the higher sugar content of cane makes it a "higher-carbon" source - it might only be more "on the surface", so to speak.

I wouldn't presume that any one person (including myself) posesses the judgement to "rule" the world.

If I were elected a world leader -- I'd bring the greatest minds together to solve the most intractable problems (over a whatever time necessary).

I'm trying to soften the issue with a little "humour".

Very little it seems.

son has to walk or ride his bike 6 miles to get home after evening classes as the buses stop running around 8pm here in a college town