Today I heard discussion on TV on potential government programs to get older cars off of the road. I have written before that this will be necessary for the Obama Administration to meet its goals. They need to reduce the average 17-year service life of cars. The proposals discussed were mostly incentives to get people to voluntarily get rid of their old car by selling it to the government for more than the market price, and by offering a subsidy for trading the old cars in on new fuel efficient cars. What if a lot of people really just don't want an electric car that is basically an enclosed four wheeled motorcycle? I predict the government will then go to coercion, assuming, as is likely, that Obama is reelected in four years. Obama wants to reduce CO2 emission by 80%, and without going to nuclear power. That is going to prove to be technically impossible without severe reduction in the standard of living. Either that goal will have to be revised or dictatorial powers will have to be assumed, because reelection will not be likely. (I suppose it is possible that master propagandists will be able to get popular support for a dictator. Hitler did it by demonizing Jews. So far Democrats are just demonizing white anglo-saxon males. I wonder if that will work.)