I have read that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is a Republican. He must be a liberal Republican, otherwise known as a RINO. He has famously said that we have to "coerce people out of their automobiles." Obama wants to give a subsidy to people who "turn in" their older cars. Senator Dianne Feinstein has some sort of bill to pay people to sell their "clunker" and buy a "green" car. This is to be expected from Obama's fascist government with its vision of a "command" rather than a "free market" economy. Here is a discussion of the fallacy of coercion economics. I particularly like the comment to the article which suggests that all elected officials and political appointees in Washington DC should be required to take public transportation to work.