The polls in October are very telling. Between October 3rd and October 13th, three polls conducted by two entities with more than 3000 adults surveyed stated the country was going in the wrong direction.
WAS THIS A REFLECTION OF AMERICANS WANTING TO GET AWAY FROM OIL BASED ECONOMY?
USA Today/Gallup Poll 10/3-5/08 9% Satisfied 90% Dissatisfied 1% Unsure
USA Today/Gallup Poll 10/10-12/08 7% Satisfied 91% dissatisfied 1% unsure
CBS News/New York Times 10/10-13/08 7% Right 89% Wrong Direction 4% unsure
Senator Shelby of Alabama wants you to believe that this is an encouragement for "Center Right" to govern.
Senator Shelby wants you to believe that the leadership in the auto companies needs to change because they failed to manage the business.
Senator Shelby also believes the dissatisfaction is his sign that the republican have a mandate to govern.
Here is my problem with this bold faced lie by Senator Shelby.
- Republicans mismanage the government for the last decade, with no proof they knew how to manage funds or government or protect our interest as a country. By using Senator Shelby's own words these poor managers must go, "THAT MEANS YOU MR. SHELBY!"
- The automotive companies have listened to Republican dorks for 20+ years by making big and bigger trucks and SUV's until they got so big they couldn't even park them in existing parking garages. Now the same republicans who too the automotive companies to the brink of extinction are the one not willing to help them get out of this fiscal, marketing and product cycle morass!! Now the Rah, Rah, Rah, Americana dorks of monster trucks and jack'd up idiot mobiles do not want to bail out the stupid manufacturing mess they created!!
- For those of you who think General Motors (GM) manufacture cars in America, wake up idiot. GM is in trouble because 80% of their earning came from GMAC and GMAC was deep, deeply and deepest entrenched in subprime loans.
We Need Change Away from Your Thinking, Mr. Shelby!
In the 19th and turn of the 20th century, it became obvious that horses and carriages for everyone in an urban setting is not going to work!
- Horses needed lots of food.
- Horses generated 10x the poop and urine as one human.
- If everyone in an urban setting owned a horse for transportation, then the city would become unmanageable. The amount of waste needed to be transported out of the city and food transported into the city just for horses makes it uneconomical.
- And if transportation issues are not solved then the economy and cities cannot grow because the goods could not get transported into the large and across the larger cities.
Luckily wagons were invented then steam locomotive and electric locomotives for mass transit.
We are at the same turning point in history, where oil based transportation is no longer sustainable. The shear number of people and vehicles would crush our economy with the burden to find more oil that does not exist.
Just like in times pass, if the politicians then supported horses and buggies, the tide turned. The maintenance of a horse and wagon in an urban setting became uneconomical. Oil based cars will become uneconomical as more and more of the world become industrialized and the finite source of oil become less and less. America and the world cannot hinge its future on a finite resource, oil.
The Big 3 is at a turning point. Buick and Oldsmobile were once great wagon and carriage makers that turned their efforts into making the first automobiles in America. Fisher Brothers turned their carriage making ability into making some of the prettiest cars and most imposing cars of the early 20th century. We have to ask these people to change.
We need engineers to present real solutions not ridiculous republican salesman dork ideas!
Ethanol - dork idea of converting 700 pound of corn into one tank of E85 for 300 mile of driving. There is not enough plant-able land on earth to make this solution work!!
Not fuel cells based on Platinum metal! The mining of platinum use cyanide that pollutes and kills. One ton of gravel yield less than 25 grams of Platinum in a rich ore!! That means 2000 pounds of waste with cyanide for 25 grams of Platinum metal needed. The problem is a fuel cell needs about 2 troy oz of platinum! It takes 31 grams to make one troy oz, so one fuel cell requires the pollution of 5000 pounds of earth to be poisoned with cyanide to extract the Platinum!! In America alone we need 10 million cars per year, that means 50 billion pounds of earth poisoned with cyanine to extract the Platinum metal to make enough cars for USA for one year!! On top of that Hydrogen is not made from water, because the energy of extraction is too high. Hydrogen is made from natural gas, which means the carbon is released into the air in the conversion cycle and it emit carbon pollution!! The complete cycle from earth to vehicle to earth need to be reviewed!! Fuel cell - dumb republican and idiot scientist idea!!
Try wind, solar and battery technology!!
- Land is inexpensive where sun is plentiful in the desert.
- Wind is plentiful in land where land is inexpensive.
Solar cells can be made on large glass panels or even Mylar. They can be deployed today and improved and recycled tomorrow.
Wind mills can be deployed today and replaced and updated with better technology tomorrow.
New-clear the republican butt cream will take 10+ years and cannot be updated on regular schedule and the technology is dangerous. Recycling the waste is not known.
What the heck are you bailing out when you bail out GM?
Where are the Rah, Rah, Americana Dorks of Monster Trucks and SUV's so big they don't fit parking garages?
Aren't these the same republicans marketing bastards that created this mess?
Aren't these the same republican politicians that created this mess my not enforcing the existing EPA and NITSA regulations?
Aren't these the same dork flag waving moron union workers that voted republicans for the last 8 years that made this mess?