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Green Era
So the Fed is throwing the Clunker offer back in the shark tank by Sunday, many pundits ponder. Due to overwhelming underwriting of new car buying across America, landfills will be overflowing with gratitude as functional cars hit the dirt. Obama’s big hit has only cost taxpayers billions and put more cars out on the road.
Did you ever see the day when a 2% rise in GM sales would be front page news?
Somehow GM and Detroit, Michigan have become the patron saints of the American economy, at a point in our sustainable lives when every kind of alternative transportation should be employed. At the expense of budget spent thus far, a monorail from Washington D.C., to Los Angeles California could have been built.
How can we be bending toward less dependence on fossil fuels when the most effective incentive thus far in Obama’s presidency is one where American buy new cars from dead automakers in a flat economy?
Surely the amount of money spent thus far on the Stimulus/ Recovery Bill and the Clunkers to cash bill is an astonishing way to solve problems. Home prices have hit bottom, oil speculators have been rocketing to new billions, and green robots may be scurrying undersea working the turbines if the media is to be believed.
Where is the answering currency to pay for these initiatives? Are we installing wind farms from Utah to Mojave to power the SouthWest and export energy to Kyoto? Are natural resources from the People’s Republic of Texas being transited to other parts of the United States that can’t afford them?
After we’ve emptied our coffers, bank reserves, and clear skies to bankroll the makeover of Iraq before they re-emerge, we might look back and see what all these billions flying around might have afforded in real terms of health care, green energy farms, and medical advancement.
Keeping the roads filled with cars is hardly what many eco-friendly voters had in mind when Obama was voted our new President. Obama needs to start executing some orders that tilt our natural resources toward the bank balances and turning our credit green around the world.
It’s hardly a complement at present to state truthfully that China is probably mobilizing more resources and intent toward green energy than we are. Perhaps President Obama will add that into his competitive nation analysis. And then we can start getting used to the fact that China finally made the Great Leap Forward.
Right over us.
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