Sacrifice for Global Warming

Believe it or not I am concerned about the enviroment and am serious on how people are making changes in their lives to help the enviroment. what i am opposed to is the government trying to regulate and punish people for not doing every stupid thing. A good example is they are talking about banning the incondecent light bulb and requiring the CFL. I have replaced lights in my house with the CFL because I am saving energy and money. I do have a problem with using them in my outdoor lights and my garage light as they are very weak in the winter and require more energy in the cold. I live in a rural area and have to have a car to get around. I am paying gas tax to build the roads and to pay for the people in the large cities to have cheep mass transit. I think that if we all do somethings it will help. But to have the government dictate what we will give up is wrong. The car I drive, a mini van, is one of those that is in the class of light trucks. The action of the Congress by requiring that the light truck fleet achieve a 35 mpg average in a few years. To achieve it the size of the vehicle will have to be reduced, the size of the engine reduced and the capisity of the vehicle. In my case I will be forced to take two vehicles to transport my family places. One report I read this morning said that people were cutting different things to continue to go on vacation or using their car. Let me decide what I will do and not the government.