On Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 12:40:26 (-0600) Robert Naiman writes: >I am offering something to the auto industry - the opportunity to make their >vehicles more fuel-efficient at zero (production) cost. > >After all, the auto industry could argue, what really matters is not how >many miles the _vehicle_ gets per gallon, but how many miles per gallon it >gets _per passenger_... > >Suppose the car comes (voluntarily) equipped with a little electronic box. >Every time you take a trip in the car of more than X miles, you get some >kind of economic/pollution control credit if more than one person made the >trip. You demonstrate this by everybody in the vehicle swiping their cards >in the electronic box, like frequent flyers on an airline. The electronic >box has a GPS that counts the miles. Each time the driver and passengers >earn credit, the auto manufacturer earns economic/pollution control credit >too, giving them an incentive to promote the program...
"Honey, I'm going to the store, gimme your and the kids' cards..." Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
