While I'd like this idea to be a part of a more comprehensive energy policy, and have the rebate idea be a somewhat more permanent one, overall, I think the approach is a good one.

I'm not at all certain that $7,500 is the right number. It could be too high or too low. But if such an incentive will drive the car companies to produce more fulel efficient and/or electric cars, and have a long term influence on the public to buy them--then I'm all for such a program.

All I'd ask is that if this is such a lousy idea, what's a better one to drive the public towards buying cars which consume less gasoline and reduce the requirement that we import more and more foreign oil?