All airplanes, trains, and large trucks burn horrendous
amounts of fuel; their use should therefore be
immediately suspended by federal mandate.

All personal travel should, of course, be by roller-skate,
and all shipping should logically be by little red wagon
overland or by Viking-style row-boat overseas.

The proposal being debated in Congress to mandate
a maximum highway speed of 55 “to save gas” ignores
the very real cost of the productive time that would be
wasted because of extended trip times.

Exchanging a loss of twenty-four dollars’ worth of time
per travel-hour for a savings of thirty cents in fuel costs
is like cutting one’s jugular to slow the bleeding of a
knee scrape — the ultimate feckless foolishness…

Politicians, please stand less between me and the
sunlight of freedom, and let free enterprise and the
unencumbered inventive genius of a free people
solve our energy problems.

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