(In reference to “Can We Stop Wasting Energy?” page 4, Mid-
February issue.) I appreciated your editorial about wasting
energy. I read your view just minutes after reading a Washington
Post article that states why GM can't or won't sell their
European gas miser cars here in the U.S. Over there, they are
viewed as a conservation leader. The average mpg voluntary
standard there is almost 20 mpg greater than here, 24 mpg vs. 44
over there. (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/
03/06/AR2007030601807.html?referrer=email)  My dairy farm is
located on a county highway, which is a serious backroad for the
“lake and recreation” people heading to their mecca each
weekend. I still don't understand why it takes a quad cab F350
to pull a 3,000-lb. boat 200 miles.  The suburbanites here in
Minnesota have much better and bigger trucks than most of us on
the farm. Why do they do it? Because they can afford it. It is
just pocket change to most of them. Until they are forced to be
“patriotic” and reduce fuel use,