According to Rep. Henry Waxman, Dem-Ca, a solution to the Gas subsidizing problems would resolve through new leadership (Waxman, Solutions). Would new leadership mean that old leadership were not making the right decisions that the new one? The question seems to be redundant or all too evident? It is not all too evident that that the older government were not making the right decision. The thesis for this presentation is the belief that government is moving towards encouraging a more energy efficient society rather than subsidizing fuel prices.
What needs to be kept in mind is that the old government were seeking to resolve at times the energy shortage by making subsidies. Sometimes government leadership wins out when problems such as the present need for a change toward energy efficiency in homes. Should Americans still want government to subsidize fuel prices?
As will be shown energy-efficiency can have various expression as : windmills, compact cars, fuel additives. Can Americans be educated soon enough before natural reserves of oil and gas are no more; can Americans adapt to the new challenge of living?
If there is one solution which aims to provide a quick and practical response to relying less on government gas subsidies it is the idea that Americans can adapt to energy-efficient living. Americans have always wanted to impress the world with thriftiness and practicality; learning to rely less upon the government to bail out taxpayers results in forcing Americans to take a new stand toward preserving natural resources.
Democrats saw largely that Americans were in need of learning to profit from more natural resources. For example, many Americans now use solar electricity, which uses the Sun's natural rays throughout the year to generate electricity of the home. Another Implementation to energy-efficiency resulted in a greater amount of windmills installed in places where wind-driven mills could provide another source of natural energy In other words; it wasn't until gas subsidies were no longer available that Americans began to use the resources around them, which were always possible.
Energy thriftiness can make itself present in a variety of ways from less use of gas intensive vehicles to regulating better vehicles. This leadership takes a broader responsibility for the economic issues that face the country at present. Renewed leadership will not violate the fundamental right to inform taxpayers of the consequences of extensive subsidizing, while caring more for the energy efficiency needed throughout the economy renewed leadership take a more healthy responsibility for monitoring energy efficient living and not overburdening taxpayers.
This new “leadership, innovation and government policies” would steer clear of allowing vulnerable markets as gas and oil manipulation (Waxman, Solutions). Oil and gas manipulation would require little change form taxpayers habits of being less energy efficient. On the other hand, the necessary to turn towards a more energy efficient economy encourages this renewed leadership. As gas prices continuing to increase, companies are offering transit subsidies for their employees. This means that car pools and other forms of public transportation are implemented to help employees with the gas price increase.
Some universities are rolling out the red carpet for their employees in the hopes to keep them supported in this time of heavy fluctuations of gas prices. Some of the programs that the universities have rolled out show the care and concern that administration take over their employees. The University of Oregon has several options for its employees ranging from Flexcar (a car that is lent out to university employees, while the university subsidizes part of the cost of its maintenance) to bus passes and shuttle program (Armour companies). The Flexcar allows the employee to check out a car for a day or a longer amount of time, while the university funds some of the bill.
Others feel that rather than encourage gas subsidizing there is besides the options offered by many politicians to shell out more money to taxpayers to defray costs, the move towards more efficient driving and using more energy efficient vehicles, which can increase mileage up to 10%.
This move towards encouraging a more efficient lifestyle appears again and again in varying degrees as householders took hold of their own responsibility to cope with the subsidizing of gas prices, the shortage of gas and oil and the increasing costs which resulted from it. In short, the trend seems heading towards researching and implementing more-efficient lifestyles (USA Today Feeling).
Both Politicians and householders across America envision that this more-efficient living will cause Americans to rely less upon government spending to have gas subsidized, while at the same time provide a catalyst to begin working new modes of energy efficiency across America. The question remains will Americans take hold of the opportunity given to them?
The census by government and homeowners have shown that Americans can cope with the problem and easily find ways to supplement their heavy dependency upon government subsidies for gas and fuel. Needless to say that there will always be those few persons who can neither work for themselves nor have the ability to make a change and that will need to depend largely upon those who being changing towards a more energy-efficient lifestyle.
