[BigAls87Z28]

Well, agreed. I think that people need to stop wanting to get bigger, larger, greater vehicles but then again its not up to me to decide what other people should do.
I am not a fan of telling people how to live thier lives. I dislike the asshats in Excursions and Suburbans, but they would be asshats in Civics and Smart cars too.
I think that a gas tax hike is the ONLY way to have people change the way they drive.
CAFE is an end around way of making people drive small cars, but as Bob Lutz put it, thats like making people lose weight by selling only small t shirts.
But CAFE is the light duty way, the indirect way to make people drive smaller more economical cars.
I think cars like the Volt will be the forseeable future, cars that use engines as a generator, not as a direct drive source.
Gas engines like the Volt's 1.4 will be replaced by perhaps Diesel engines that get better gas milage, extending the range.
Disel could then be replaced by hydrogen fuel cells, charging the battery system once battery power has been depleted.