Ok so you're thinking green gas should cost much more than it does. But thank goodness it does not. If I were paying the price at the pump that I should under the green standards me nor anyone else could afford it. As a transport service operator, fuel is my #1 overhead. The way it stands now green pricing would put me right out of business. Citizens could not afford the rates I would have to charge to make a profit thus make a living. Every business is about being able to pay the bills which includes payroll, so I'd have to be able to pay myself. It would not be possible if the pump was charging me green prices.
Cities including Vienna to Munich and Copenhagen have closed vast swaths of streets to car traffic. Barcelona and Paris have had car lanes eroded by popular bike-sharing programs. Drivers in London and Stockholm pay hefty congestion charges just for entering the heart of the city. And over the past two years, dozens of German cities have joined a national network of“environmental zones” where only cars with low carbon dioxide emissions may enter.
I'd like to see any state in the western portion of America besides California try these ideas and have them succeed. The area is too rural. Too much open space in getting from one town to another. The Northeast coast and most of California are congested enough that it's possible they could enact some of these ideas, though I don't think they would sit well with the citizenry. So for now America will pay the extreme prices petro has reached but the country is not yet ready to pay to go green at the pump.
