IN SUPPORT OF OUR BIGGEST POLLUTER, THE AUTOMOBILE!!
Automobile engine emissions have become the most significant result of oil production. You can check the references or take my word for it and skip to the body of the message below.
For example here is a reference:
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Environment/E_Overview/E_Overview4.htm
Another interesting reference is:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577413/Air_Pollution.html
Also look at an article summarizing the problems related to the automobile.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A16228-2002Jul16¬Found=true
If you just take my word for it and accept the automobiles (your car and mine) are causing problems with the environment and creating a situation where we buy so much oil we are financing our enemies development of military assets that they want to use to conquer us.
For many years we have been bombarded with advertising of all types that have convinced us we must own an automobile and our influence on our neighbors and our stature in this world is based almost entirely on the size and value of the automobile we drive. The average American owes close to $30,000 for a car loan. This means that many Americans spend the equivalent of a whole years income for an automobile and much of their decision is based on the image that automobileS will project.
For years it has been known that a red convertible in the showroom window will draw men into the show room. It was believed that the red convertible stirred senses related to love (sex) and most buyers would leave with a more sedate sedan but they had a chance to explore their fantasy and they were lured into the showroom.
The automobile industry has researched every facet of our imaginations and buying impulses. They know us better than we know ourselves and they have convinced us (brainwashed) that we need a car and the bigger the better.
Now, after convincing us that we need their product they are going broke because of international competition. They want our government to use our tax money to save their sorry butts so they can continue to mislead us and sell us something we do not need if we were smart enough to resist them.
Our primary problem comes from our lack of use of mass transportation. When our fathers began to believe in the value and convenience of the car they stopped using mass transportation. If you wanted to use a form of transit today you cannot except in larger cities.
In some of our major cities like New York a subway and bus system exists to help move people and the efficiency of such projects is very beneficial. The subway is electrified and covers most of the city. The same concept can be applied to other cities using underground or above ground systems. The distribution of the electricity is very efficient and reduces the need to distribute fuel to inefficient modes such as the private automobile. It is difficult to drive and park in New York City and other large cities so many people park their cars and ride the transit systems into cities that have them available.
Many countries rely more on mass transportation than we do. Of course we are innovators in a wonderful country open to free capitalization and the mass production and promotion of the automobile has been very successful. If we could stimulate our major automobile manufacturers to shift from the automobile business to the transportation business we would have some of the best minds in America working on the improvement of our energy use and more efficient methods of moving us from place to place.
Of course we do not expect a transit system to be efficient out in the country where population is spread out and infrequent, but we can identify cities that will benefit from better and more efficient transportation. We can also expand our bullet train system to connect more cities and we can expand other people moving systems for smaller cities.
We need to explore the use of electricity as an energy source produced from nuclear power or natural gas. We need to explore existing technology to build better and more efficient movement.
And we need to promote the use of mass transportation and stop luring the masses to the ownership of individual automobiles.
The big three auto producers have the talent to prepare a plan for us to promote better and more efficient transportation that will be less expensive and produce less pollution. They also have many manufacturing facilities that could be converted to handle the production of people moving vehicles for mass transit. They also have the marketing ability to help us promote among ourselves the concept of the contribution we are all making to our community with the use of mass transportation.
We already have in the House of Representatives a leader in the efforts of mass transit, Congressman John Mica, who can lead us in our efforts to change our styles and resolve many problems. He is a ranking member of the House Committee for Transportation and Infrastructure and has worked hard to improve transportation projects.
And yes, with a few concessions from the big three automakers I could see benefits from helping with their financing. If we were ever to support a plan to improve transportation and make it more efficient we would have to invest some money and now, in a time of need by these companies it would seem they would be more receptive to directing their goals toward projects that benefit all of us. They have gained some reductions on some labor contracts and have invested large sums in hybrid car development. If they will recognize and work with our needs we can consider working with them.
Read about moving people in self controlled pod cars
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12392
Read about a people mover blog I published a couple of years ago.
http://divinebullet.blogspot.com/2006/07/introduction-to-our-solution-to-fuel.html
Read about the bullet trains here:
http://www.o-keating.com/hsr/bullet.htm
Read a good summary about mass transportation followed by a complete history here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/public-transport
Read about the need for mass transit by Tom Teepen of Cox Newspapers.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/391906_teepenonline13.html
Now you must visit the Urban Design group who have organized the problem as part of a master plan to work for a solution. You will find this site interesting and exciting. Spend some time here, subscribe to their newsletter and support their efforts.
http://www.urbandesign.org/
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
REPUBLICANS UNDER ATTACK
REPUBLICANS MUST FORTIFY YOURSELVES, YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!!!
Yes, Republicans and the Republican Party are under daily attack. The most amazing feature of this criticism is that you are being attacked by other Republicans and even fair minded news media such as Fox.
I really cannot understand this! We are being told how badly we failed and that we must rebuild our party and drag ourselves up out of the depths of failure.
As you listen to this continuous onslaught of verbal chatter please stop and put the facts into perspective. For example:
The strongest criticism has been related to the recent election and that election presented many challenges.
The media was about 90% or more in favor of Obama. The amount of publicity provided to Obama was huge and reporter after reporter praised him without investigating his background. The popular late night shows praised Obama and made fun of Bush. You can review the level of bias by visiting the Media Research Center at http://www.mediaresearch.org/
The media blasted Bush for years and Bush had a very low approval rate.
When Republicans made major errors it was pointed out they were
Republicans, but when it was a Democrat the press would skip that fact.
Obama was a great communicator and McCain was not as effective.
Obama had
95% of the black vote
67% of the Latino vote.
60% of the moderate vote
66% of the 18-29 year old vote.
He spent a fortune on ads and contributions to him were record breaking; he had strong financial support of Unions special interest groups, the hollywood crowd, the media and active spending groups.
He had a well organized campaign with a strong internet program. He had speeches where he attracted 50 to 100 thousand followers.
Major cities are controlled by liberals and their control of voting and the integrity of machines and voting is unknown in the metropolitan areas. The vote is usually strongly in favor of liberals and irregularities do not receive much concern. However, when Bush made a strong showing in the liberal area of Miami the weaknesses were highlighted and blamed on Bush, when in fact the Democrats had control and responsibility for maintaining a system with integrity.
During the recent election the Republicans did not have a much to spend and feel we did not do as well.
There were 123,576,161 votes with 53.3 percent for Obama and 46.6 percent for McCain. I would have expected, especially with the strong black vote the difference to be double digits, maybe 15 to 20% more for Obama. Dick Morris stated on TV the spread would have been much higher if it had not been for Sarah Palin.
Even with the odds stacked against the Republican Party the difference was only 6.7 percent. Imagine that. If just 3.5% had switched their vote McCain would have won. If we had pulled just 1% each from the black vote, the Latino vote, the independent vote and the younger voter group we would have won. And McCain was not as effective as someone like Reagan, he had a handicap from his age but he did have his time as a prisoner and he did have Sarah Palin. Dick Morris analyzed the vote difference would have been larger if it were not for help from Palin. During the debates Huckabee showed a strong understanding of the issues and connected well with the few questions he was invited to answer. McCain and even Romney looked weak with their lack of connection with the issues raised. Even some of the debates were influenced by the biased questioners who were leaning toward those they expected Obama to defeat.
I also know that with my experience working on campaigns that those who are opposed to a person or a policy have much more passion and work harder to defeat the opposition and usually are more successful in winning elections. Obama had the change issue locked up, he promised to change Washington. McCain had a good program for changing the pork barrel politics of Washington but he could not sell it. He just did not connect. I also doubt that he was open to suggestions or advice or ideas from others as to how to change it.
With the odds against him I feel the Republican Party did a pretty good job of trying to sell McCain against the formidable odds listed above. We did not get beaten by a landslide. Our national committee put up a good fight and you helped maintain a high level of competition and need to be commended.
In the next election we will have the power of being the opposition. Obama cannot possibly deliver on all the promises he made or implied. He is going to lose some of his support. Familiarity might not breed contempt but it can certainly take the edge off admiration and we can expect each group to lose a few votes to our side and if we do all we did this time we can expect to win.
Of course we need change, we need to improve. We vote but then the elected officials are led to the trough by big money lobbyists so I argue that we do not have representation. We must do something about the lobbyists. They are corrupting our government and stealing the representation away from the voters. Shawn Hannity has commented on this. The influence has grown recently by the giving of perks to staff members. If you contact your representatives in congress they might never know you called because a staff member who is receiving gifts might suppress your information. We have to stop this unfair influence. We can do this by providing money for elections or by forcing lobbyists out of business or by law or by competing with them by contributing to a citizens lobbying group.
Let me also mention we have people telling us how they can use the internet to help us solve all our problems and it is enticing. But they are seldom able to perform. The interest in using the internet during the campaign came from young people who were against the Bush program and were fired up against the present regime by the media and they happened to keep connected with the internet.
It was not necessarily the internet; it was the opposition passion within the users. We need to be wary of those who promise to know how to use the internet and get us to back them and place our resources with them.
In the next elections it will all change. We will be the opposition party, we will have the passion to change from Obama’s failed promises and offer our own solutions and by then Governor Palin will be a leader and will express our viewpoint for us. We do not know how powerful she will become or if someone else will rise to the top. But we do have an exciting future ahead.
There are a few among us who have the interest and desire to guide our party in the right direction. We are a big party and have many viewpoints to include, not just the conservative branch. Recently Deputy Governor Michael Steele has expressed an interest. He is a good man and I do not oppose his efforts. I would like to say that when people we listen to like O’Reilly say they do not know who our present leader is it bothers me. We should thank the Republican National Committee and its Chairman Mr. Duncan and we should thank the Republican Congressional Committee and its Chairman Mr. Cole for their hard work and for bringing us so close to success under such formidable obstacles as I have listed. And we must ask them to continue to work to pull the underhanded pork barrel politics including earmarks out of our government.
In closing I would like to repeat a statement I made in the past to try to gain your support for helping to make our party a success.
I have been alive for almost 40% of the life of our country. One of my ancestors was one of the first officials in the Pomona area of New Amsterdam that became New Jersey. Another ancestor was involved in the grass roots movement to end slavery which began with the forming of the Republican Party. I went with my Dad to hand out flyers for Tom Dewey when he ran against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I became the youngest Mayor of my community when I defeated a Democrat and then successfully campaigned for other Republicans. I helped plan and worked in several campaigns at all levels.
I feel sad that my Dad could not be alive to see us have control of the presidency and both houses of congress but glad he did not have to witness the self destruction of that great achievement by our own party groveling in earmarks and lobbyists lavish gifts.
I must beg of all of you to honor our ancestors and their dreams. Give thanks to all of those who have helped us succeed and condemn those who have soiled our objectives. I thank you so much. To those of you who have done damage to our policies and objectives I ask you to reform or help us to successfully replace you.
Reference to previous blog concerning help wanted for honest government:
http://dictionarydogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/men-and-women-who-are-willing-to-serve.html
Yes, Republicans and the Republican Party are under daily attack. The most amazing feature of this criticism is that you are being attacked by other Republicans and even fair minded news media such as Fox.
I really cannot understand this! We are being told how badly we failed and that we must rebuild our party and drag ourselves up out of the depths of failure.
As you listen to this continuous onslaught of verbal chatter please stop and put the facts into perspective. For example:
The strongest criticism has been related to the recent election and that election presented many challenges.
The media was about 90% or more in favor of Obama. The amount of publicity provided to Obama was huge and reporter after reporter praised him without investigating his background. The popular late night shows praised Obama and made fun of Bush. You can review the level of bias by visiting the Media Research Center at http://www.mediaresearch.org/
The media blasted Bush for years and Bush had a very low approval rate.
When Republicans made major errors it was pointed out they were
Republicans, but when it was a Democrat the press would skip that fact.
Obama was a great communicator and McCain was not as effective.
Obama had
95% of the black vote
67% of the Latino vote.
60% of the moderate vote
66% of the 18-29 year old vote.
He spent a fortune on ads and contributions to him were record breaking; he had strong financial support of Unions special interest groups, the hollywood crowd, the media and active spending groups.
He had a well organized campaign with a strong internet program. He had speeches where he attracted 50 to 100 thousand followers.
Major cities are controlled by liberals and their control of voting and the integrity of machines and voting is unknown in the metropolitan areas. The vote is usually strongly in favor of liberals and irregularities do not receive much concern. However, when Bush made a strong showing in the liberal area of Miami the weaknesses were highlighted and blamed on Bush, when in fact the Democrats had control and responsibility for maintaining a system with integrity.
During the recent election the Republicans did not have a much to spend and feel we did not do as well.
There were 123,576,161 votes with 53.3 percent for Obama and 46.6 percent for McCain. I would have expected, especially with the strong black vote the difference to be double digits, maybe 15 to 20% more for Obama. Dick Morris stated on TV the spread would have been much higher if it had not been for Sarah Palin.
Even with the odds stacked against the Republican Party the difference was only 6.7 percent. Imagine that. If just 3.5% had switched their vote McCain would have won. If we had pulled just 1% each from the black vote, the Latino vote, the independent vote and the younger voter group we would have won. And McCain was not as effective as someone like Reagan, he had a handicap from his age but he did have his time as a prisoner and he did have Sarah Palin. Dick Morris analyzed the vote difference would have been larger if it were not for help from Palin. During the debates Huckabee showed a strong understanding of the issues and connected well with the few questions he was invited to answer. McCain and even Romney looked weak with their lack of connection with the issues raised. Even some of the debates were influenced by the biased questioners who were leaning toward those they expected Obama to defeat.
I also know that with my experience working on campaigns that those who are opposed to a person or a policy have much more passion and work harder to defeat the opposition and usually are more successful in winning elections. Obama had the change issue locked up, he promised to change Washington. McCain had a good program for changing the pork barrel politics of Washington but he could not sell it. He just did not connect. I also doubt that he was open to suggestions or advice or ideas from others as to how to change it.
With the odds against him I feel the Republican Party did a pretty good job of trying to sell McCain against the formidable odds listed above. We did not get beaten by a landslide. Our national committee put up a good fight and you helped maintain a high level of competition and need to be commended.
In the next election we will have the power of being the opposition. Obama cannot possibly deliver on all the promises he made or implied. He is going to lose some of his support. Familiarity might not breed contempt but it can certainly take the edge off admiration and we can expect each group to lose a few votes to our side and if we do all we did this time we can expect to win.
Of course we need change, we need to improve. We vote but then the elected officials are led to the trough by big money lobbyists so I argue that we do not have representation. We must do something about the lobbyists. They are corrupting our government and stealing the representation away from the voters. Shawn Hannity has commented on this. The influence has grown recently by the giving of perks to staff members. If you contact your representatives in congress they might never know you called because a staff member who is receiving gifts might suppress your information. We have to stop this unfair influence. We can do this by providing money for elections or by forcing lobbyists out of business or by law or by competing with them by contributing to a citizens lobbying group.
Let me also mention we have people telling us how they can use the internet to help us solve all our problems and it is enticing. But they are seldom able to perform. The interest in using the internet during the campaign came from young people who were against the Bush program and were fired up against the present regime by the media and they happened to keep connected with the internet.
It was not necessarily the internet; it was the opposition passion within the users. We need to be wary of those who promise to know how to use the internet and get us to back them and place our resources with them.
In the next elections it will all change. We will be the opposition party, we will have the passion to change from Obama’s failed promises and offer our own solutions and by then Governor Palin will be a leader and will express our viewpoint for us. We do not know how powerful she will become or if someone else will rise to the top. But we do have an exciting future ahead.
There are a few among us who have the interest and desire to guide our party in the right direction. We are a big party and have many viewpoints to include, not just the conservative branch. Recently Deputy Governor Michael Steele has expressed an interest. He is a good man and I do not oppose his efforts. I would like to say that when people we listen to like O’Reilly say they do not know who our present leader is it bothers me. We should thank the Republican National Committee and its Chairman Mr. Duncan and we should thank the Republican Congressional Committee and its Chairman Mr. Cole for their hard work and for bringing us so close to success under such formidable obstacles as I have listed. And we must ask them to continue to work to pull the underhanded pork barrel politics including earmarks out of our government.
In closing I would like to repeat a statement I made in the past to try to gain your support for helping to make our party a success.
I have been alive for almost 40% of the life of our country. One of my ancestors was one of the first officials in the Pomona area of New Amsterdam that became New Jersey. Another ancestor was involved in the grass roots movement to end slavery which began with the forming of the Republican Party. I went with my Dad to hand out flyers for Tom Dewey when he ran against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I became the youngest Mayor of my community when I defeated a Democrat and then successfully campaigned for other Republicans. I helped plan and worked in several campaigns at all levels.
I feel sad that my Dad could not be alive to see us have control of the presidency and both houses of congress but glad he did not have to witness the self destruction of that great achievement by our own party groveling in earmarks and lobbyists lavish gifts.
I must beg of all of you to honor our ancestors and their dreams. Give thanks to all of those who have helped us succeed and condemn those who have soiled our objectives. I thank you so much. To those of you who have done damage to our policies and objectives I ask you to reform or help us to successfully replace you.
Reference to previous blog concerning help wanted for honest government:
http://dictionarydogs.blogspot.com/2007/09/men-and-women-who-are-willing-to-serve.html
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