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Slap a serious Gas tax on (something like the British system ~80%) then use the tax to start putting in the infrastructure for electric trains, solar facilities, wind power or whatever. The problem is America is based on the idea of cheap transport (gas) and large spread out areas. If you were charged more for petrol many people would move to more efficient vehicles and or public transpoet. The transport has to be easy to use/get to and run quickly though, 1 train every 4 hours is useless. With an additional tax you would also have money to invest in the future. It has to be done at some point, we might as well bite the bullet now and do it so that we don't have this problem.
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