00,000 barrels of fuel are used by SUV’s alone. For the small cost of $940 per SUV we could almost double the gas mileage on such cars as the Ford Explorer (Union of Concerned Scientists). The idea of using other sources of fuel also plays a large part in this new environmental revolution. Cars that burn hydrogen fuel are in the testing stage of production, and could be on the market relatively soon. By simply supporting new technology and research we could easily see cars that get over two hundred miles per gallon by the year 2004; however, it looks like the Europeans will beat us in having this car because the administration you lead cancelled the United States’ 2004 deadline for the prototype of such cars. This achievement would mean that for now the Alaskan terrain could remain unharmed for further generations to use in states of fuel emergencies. This decision would not only protect this land, it could also save the government in the upwards of twenty billion dollars annually, claims Green Peace: “At present, the federal government provides between about $5 billion and $12 billion a year in subsidies to the oil industry in the form of tax breaks, maintenance of coastal and inland shipping routes and taxpayer underwriting of oil companies' insurance and liability policies. Add in the cost of defending supplies from the Persian Gulf, and the total rises by about $20 billion.” This money could go towards much of the funding the government has cut since your Presidency began. Such things as: give back the fifty percent cut to research on renewable energy sources, withdraw the decision to cut twenty-eight percent of spending on research for more efficient cars, going towards a campaign promise (made by you) to give $100 annually towards the conservation of rain forests, give the money back to the Environmental Protection Agency that was cut from their budget, and the list goes on – any way you look at...
