Reply #57: Exactly!

[GrannyK]

The oil companies were the leaders in this scheme, assisted by tire, asphalt, etc. Another poster remarked about hemp. In fact those same corporations were behind criminalizing hemp because it could be used in so many of the same applications as petroleum, and other resources, and is a hell of a lot more environmentally sustainable.

Several years ago companies were receiving hugh write-offs for buying gas guzzling suv's and trucks. Is it jumping to conclusions to suspect that oil and auto companies were behind this tax loophole.

Americans, for the most part, want what the media marketing companies convince them they want. If Madison Avenue decided it wanted to push smart cars, people would be standing in line.

Perhaps the auto companies will ask their buddies in the oil industry to bail them out. They seem to be the only industry that is still in the black.