GM CEO Dan Akerson Promotes Higher Gasoline Taxes As His Solution To Solve America's Gasoline Addiction-Huh?

But First Snide's Remarks: Hey Dan, Most Americans don't want and can't use small cars, no matter how expensive gasoline will become (in both dollars and our service men and woman's lives). No matter what, you can't squeeze 4 kids and your spouse into a small vehicle like the Cruze.

What's with your new tax thing effort to reduce gasoline use anyway? GM already owns what could be a timely solution to reduce and then eliminate the use of oil based fuels in America's vehicles by making all GM cars and trucks E85 Flex-Fuel models.

But sadly Dan, it seems that you have been distracted by Big Oil's propaganda that dishonestly proclaims, "that there is not just one solution for our gasoline problem but many", an untrue bromide that benefits Big Oil and which surprisingly seems to have taken your energy and determination away from a real solution and has you focused on fairy tale alternatives (Like EV's) which are not realistic mid or even long term solutions but are distractions taking your eyes off GM's in progress gasoline replacement that can solve the problem now.

Dan I know you have the balls to stand up to oil bought politicians, oil company sycophants and anti-American right wing talk hosts and push for a win-win for both GM and America by reinvigorating your company's push for Flex-Fuel vehicles.

Your army already know how to build them, fix them and market them, and because they use just 15% of the gasoline your "regular" vehicles use they can solve our oil problem tomorrow.

And because Flex-fuel is; renewable, sustainable and domestic, grown by our American farmers and distilled into ethanol in every state in the union, a truly successful GM flex-fuel initiative will create a vibrant dynamic green industry that can ignite America's economy and allow Americans to buy more GM Cars and Trucks.

Dan I know you are a patriotic American, but this higher tax push will only help maintain the gasoline monopoly status-quo, it seems to me you are unwittingly(I trust) doing the work of the bad guys with your proposal...come on Dan, GM was once proud of its Flex-fuel initiative an admirable and realistic American Solution to America's Problem, so what happened?

An blatant example of GM's recent unexplained move away from promoting the benefits of Flex-fuel was that in the GM Exhibits at this year's LA, Detroit and Chicago auto shows there was ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OR VISIBILITY FOR GM's FLEX-FUEL OFFERING nowhere in your exhibits, NONE, in fact the Flex-fuel models I saw on display did not even have a Flex-fuel badge on them...what the heck is going on?.

Dan I am not questioning your motives for the push for higher gasoline taxes, but do question your lack of leadership in communicating the benefits of Flex-fuel for our country as well(what a wonderful competitive advantage GM has over the international brands) GM's C level execs.

For example, during a Q and A session at a recent automotive industry conference in San Francisco, a highly ranked GM exec was asked about the role that ethanol could play in the elimination of gasoline, he smiled and remarked "how bad e15 would be for his snow-blower", a causal off hand remark but one if really does reflect GM's flex-fuel position was both stupid and Anti-American, especially coming from a top executive of a bankrupt American company, bailed out by the American People, a hurtful and pro-enemy remark made in desperate times by one who should know better, how disturbing and sad.

So Dan get your troops to once again march in a direction that will win the ongoing battle for a real drop-in replacement for gasoline now, before our economy and our country is completely controlled by today's fifth column - OPEC.

Please let me know what you think, msnide@theautochannel.com

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars, and he's confident the government will soon shed its remaining 26 percent stake in the once-bankrupt automaker.

"I actually think the government will be out this year — within the next 12 months, hopefully within the next six months," Akerson said in a two-hour interview with The Detroit News last week.

He went on to discuss a government-imposed tax hike, which he believes will prompt more people to buy small cars and do more good for the environment than forcing automakers to comply with higher gas-mileage standards. For the years 2017-25, federal officials are considering 3 percent to 6 percent annual fuel efficiency increases, or 47 mpg to 62 mpg. That could boost the cost of vehicles by up to $3,500. "You know what I'd rather have them do — this will make my Republican friends puke — as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent or a dollar tax on a gallon of gas," Akerson said. "People will start buying more Cruzes and they will start buying less Suburbans."

For the complete interview in the Detroit News, click here.