America Must Collar the Oil Companies, Free Electric Car Batteries, and Tax Oil

The auto companies are widely viewed as appealing to the Democrats ("Dems") for aid both in clearing their pension liability and in erecting trade barriers to foreign cars. At the same time, Dems, it's predicted, will rescind the special tax benefits Bush handed out to the oil companies.

Now is the time to demand that Dems actually do more than just pay back the unions for their contributions ... Any aid to the auto companies, and all policy toward the oil companies, must be accompanied by:

1. Freeing the Nickel-Metal-Hydride ("NiMH") batery patents from Chevron, and forcing Toyota to resume production of their NiMH EV-95 battery as a condition of doing business. Eminent domain is one possibility, criminal prosecution is another. This battery, still in use and working fine more than five years after the last one rolled off the production line (it was withdrawn after Chevron sued Toyota), lasts longer than the life of a car, even a Toyota car. The EV-95 NiMH battery is proven reliable in actual use over hundreds of Toyota RAV4-EV since it went into production in 1997.

2. Raising Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency ("CAFE") standards. Just a 10% rise in CAFE standards would yield as much new oil as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ("ANWR"). And the rise in CAFE standards would go on, "producing" hidden oil, long after the fifteen-year life of ANWR was exhausted, and all its oil gone. Making us even more dependent after it was spent.

3. A graduated tax on oil, so that the more you use, the more you pay. One way to do this is via ration cards; another is by raising the price but giving "gas credit cards" to everyone for the first $100/month of cheap gas. After that, they would have to pay the going price, perhaps $8/gallon. Other ways to do this are by regional taxes on gas deliveries, and a gas-guzzler tax.

4. A new, national Zero Emission Vehicle ("ZEV", "EV" or Electric car) mandate, "a ZEV must be produced to satisfy the demand of the free market so that everyone who wants to buy one at a fair price will be served an EV". California proved that it can force the auto companies to make such a car, and it was a nightmare to the oil companies; "...a senior Chevron executive was quoted off-the-record as saying that Chevron was determined not to go down the BEV path again and never to let that happen again in the automotive industry, at least not with NiMH batteries...".

This is America; we are ingenious, inventive, and problem-solvers. Don't listen to the traitors and criminals who say "it can't be done"; really, it's very straight-forward and clear, once you take the profit motive and the oil companies out of the halls of power.

This can be a letter writing campaign, testimony, picketing, petitions, and perhaps just contacting your elected representatives.

The mainstream does not even know that Chevron controls the NiMH patents, nor that the existence of EVs depends on these batteries, the only proven economical, long-lasting, and powerful enough to drive a car without an Internal Combustion ("IC") engine, a completely oil-free and gasoline-free car.

It's possible that Lithium, or lead-acid, might be made sufficient, perhaps with nano-tech; but that's a different issue. We know, now, that the NiMH batteries exist and are successful; we know that they work; and no pissant company, no matter how many bribes they pay, should be allowed to stand in the way of the national security while hiding their bloody hands in the interest of their oil megalopoly and bloated profits.

The price of gas has already started to rise; there's no reason to believe that the oil companies won't use the excuse of "peak oil" to jack prices as high as they wish, and reduce competition and regulation while they can.

The issue is plain; the liars are the oil companies and their paid hacks and bribed politicians.

Americans are proud of being "A Nation of Volunteers and Survivors".

Americans must stand up, kick around, and collar the oil companies, instead of fearing and slavishly serving them and their paid-off politicians.