Comments on: The Road Ahead

By: bernard

bernard — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:59:42 +0000

Look for the money trail and you will find out who did what to who, very simple, Watson, elementary.

By: bernard

bernard — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:57:40 +0000

I just saw the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car,”

The oil companies ( the sisters) did.

By: Heado

Heado — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:45:15 +0000

Zhirem said:

“We remember that GM had an electric car prototype in the 80’s.”

I just saw the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car,” (http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/)and it appears that GM had more than a “prototype” electric car. In California, the GM EV1 had waiting lists (film says up to 5,000 people committed to buy), public charging stations, and pretty much everything other than an effective marketing campaign to spread the word. Heck, there were even public protests against GM when they called in all the leases (they would not sell the cars outright, everyone had to lease them no matter what.).

The film implies that GM never wanted the car to succeed.

If more Americans were to see this film, I’d have to agree with you, that “assistance will not be forthcoming from our citizenry…”

By: billybob

billybob — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:15:58 +0000

greenspan: cluster-f**k fractal personified

By: Rick Turner

Rick Turner — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:00:14 +0000

Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall in Greenspan’s therapist’s office? It’s kind of sad, really… This guy has had his “model” of human behaviour totally blown to pieces in all of this. It’s actually amazing that he hasn’t eaten the muzzle of a Smith and Wesson for breakfast yet. He actually thought that the kings of Wall Street would act in the interests of their companies’ stockholders and not in their own fast track self interest!

Where are Morgan and Milena now that we really need them…to kick around… Ayn’s apprentice has lost the faith!

By: Rick Turner

Rick Turner — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:50:01 +0000

A huge issue in “developing countries” is the systematic and near universal corruption that spins 97% of the IMF and World Bank funds into “projects” (read off shore bank accounts) for the 3% of the upper class. Haiti is, of course, the most obvious example of this in our hemisphere, and the very history of that country establishes a tradition of that rip off of the poor as being normal. Have we as Americans ever been on the right side of that one? But then extend that all across our hemisphere and then across the globe. We have been barely ahead of Leopold II in our support of despots for a buck. This is not “free market capitalism”, and Alan Greenspan be damned for not understanding that greed must be restrained.

By: billy-bob

billy-bob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:50:39 +0000

I was going to add that we may have reached the “tipping point” for capitalism as we have known it.

By: billy-bob

billy-bob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:49:02 +0000

Hey y’all ought to the Crash Course at Chris Martenson’s site: http://www.chrismartenson.com/crash-course

Chris has prepared a brilliant series of video pieces that speak calmly, rationally, and analytically to what is happening to our economy, environment, and culture.

Section 15 on “bubbles” should help to convince you as tot how truly F**k’d we are. Chris also covers money, growth, prosperity, peak oil and a number of other topics.

I was reasonably familiar with many of these subjects, but these pieces really provided depth and pulled all the concepts together into a coherent but scary whole.

Don’t worry, it’s not conspiracy theory (quite the contrary in fact)–although you will find a good helping of Armageddon gold nuts in the forums on the site

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:38:45 +0000

“Most of the output of NanoSolar, the company in San Jose that prints sheets and sheets of photovoltaic panels is going to Germany.”

Don’t worry, Rick…wait a couple years. We’ll ship those manufacturing jobs overseas just as we start buying huge quantities of the product.

Have faith in America’s ability to screw up.

By: Amber in Albuquerque

Amber in Albuquerque — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:17:32 +0000

The consumption thing, especially around the holidays, has been bugging the heck out of me for several years now. The ads for computers and cars (?!). Unreal. I’m probably going to spend about the same as usual, maybe a little less, but I (and a lot of other fiber-oriented people) give hand made or hand baked gifts to those we know don’t mind receiving them. I haven’t taken the handmade pledged (which would require me to give ONLY handmade) because I know some folks in my family (well, the in-laws) prefer to receive store bought. Anyway, this is the long version of…I’m glad some sanity may be returned to the holiday season (even if it is involuntary).