The decline is inevitable. How can it be anything else? The era of the internal combustion engine is done; all that remains is the time to covert to something else.

We've come so close to killing the earth we live upon that to continue as we have been for the last century, especially in the United States, would be complete folly. Look around us, the evidence is clear. . .

Temperatures world wide are completely out of whack. Do you care? Are you still sitting in your vehicle during rush hour all alone? Roll your window down and breathe in some of those choking fumes and try to tell yourself that all these turning engines of industry are not killing the planet. Sort of hard to do, huh?

The technology needed to change is already here. Certainly there are problems to work out, but they are simply problems that have to be dealt with, like we have always done. The question is: will we wait until it is too late?

The most obvious change has to be, must be, the way we power our vehicles.

There is no need to go back to the old horse and buggy. But a renewed investment, by tax payers, into public transportation would be a good start. And, driving vehicles that are powered with electricity can make the remaining difference.

You and I are the force needed to push this change. If we simply refuse to buy gas hogs, and raise the demand for fuel efficient, planet friendly transportation, we can bring about the final days of the old internal combustion menace.

The sooner the better.

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