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The US can just buy a better credit rating from Moody's,much like the banks did when they paid Moody's to give it's highest ratings to the sub-prime drek they were packaging.These are some rambling thoughts from an old man who learned to drive in the early 60's when gasoline was 30 CENTS A GALLON !! Now America, it is too late.
I have always held the following beliefs as hope for America. I talked to politicians and pundits alike..the pundits listened..the politicians sent me form letters or form-emails..............
1. The electric infrastructure...Should have been rebuilt to 110% capacity over the last two (2) decades.
Hydro electricity, natural gas, nuke and now solar farms, as a group could have supplied nearly unlimited electricity and thousands of good paying jobs for buiding the system and maintenance. TAX codes for OBSOLESCENCE let the power companies write off their investments and degrade the system to "JUNK STATUS"
2. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC TRAINS TO CRISSCROSS THE NATION.. With sufficient electricity to power high speed trains, food stuffs, material transfer and people transfer could be maintained across America. When 18 wheel trucks have no oil based fuel or it is so expensive that food costs will rise 100% a year to support truck transport.. how, as a nation will we survive?...This is where T. Boone Picken's idea comes in to change over the entire US trucking fleet to "natural gas". This would have made the daily delivery of food, materials and people at least tolerable in an economic sense. Will anyone be able to afford a plane ticket when it costs $2000.00 to fly five hundred miles. Will people be able to drive 500 hundred miles, (1000 miles round trip) to visit family when the cost of gasoline might
exceed $250.00 for gasoline, based on a very small car that should average 25/30 miles per gallon.
3. Small "Intrerurban" train systems powered by oil fuel would serve outlying areas off the main electric
powered train lines. ALL delivery trucks "MUST" be converted to natural gas with the NECESSARY support systems to deliver natural gas fill-ups at virtually any point.
4. Every major city should have had some sort of "electric/natural gas" interurban train system to connect major parts of their cities. No pedestrian traffic in our major cities. Small battery powered vehicles for "taxi" use or pedestrian "treadway" moving walkways extending for several miles within
the heart of our cities, to move people at a crisp " fast-walk pace"
WELL, surely some companies will scream bloody hell...aircraft manufacturing will suffer..but be replaced by manufacturing/maintenance to support all of the above..Lots of lobbyists will lose their jobs,
but is the loss of a few of their jobs worth the security of a nation? Does anybody here want their children to go hungry because of NO GASOLINE/OIL to make deliveries to a local grocery store? How many of you can live without necessary medications that cannot be delivered because of fuel shortages? Ask yourselves these questions .?