Adam’s wartime domestic policy outline
-One car per household.
-Tax breaks for people who substantially use public transportation.
-Greatly increased government funding of clean and alternative fuel research, partially funded by significant increases in gasoline taxes.
-Tax breaks for solar and other “off the grid” technologies.
-Nationwide plan for increasing public transportation, both locally and from city to city – sort of like a mirror image of the national highway system.
-Significantly increased fuel economy standards for all cars across the board.
-Luxury taxes on giant SUVs.
How about a wartime strategy based on individual sacrifice for the greater good, rather than one based on perpetuating our freedom to be as wasteful and damaging as we want? Or are we too soft and wimpy to handle a little sacrifice for the country we maintain we love so much? How about a homefront plan that benefits us all in the long term, rather than promotes the industries (military hardware and oil, principally) that got us into this mess in the first place? A plan that steps us away from danger rather than toward it?
We are energy junkies who need to kick the habit, for the sake of both ourselves and the world at large. Let’s put all this patriotism to use.