While experiencing this thread I'll urge list members to make sure to think
about the example it uses: E85 and Hybrid automobiles.
I'm not the first to pose the question, but is the road to Hell paved with
Hybrid automobiles? I believe it was John Tierney writing in the NY Times a
couple of months ago about California opening up HOV lanes to Hybrid vehicles
who worded the thought so well.
Automobiles have dominated human lives for such a short period of time. Let's
not fall into the trap of thinking that bettering a wrong-headed infrastructure
switch (away from rail to automobiles) is the answer. E85 and Hybrid vehicles
could just prolong the use of fossil fuels alowing the fossil fuel and auto
industries to eek out a lot more profit and a bit more life before their
inevitable collapse. All resulting in the same amount of fuel burned and
emmissions emitted just over a longer period of time.
Let's stop the building of freeways to nowhere and continue building trains to
nowhere (except high levels of ridership). Then we can focus on that pesky
electric grid--it's really not that complicated. Maybe Minneapolis should add
a municiple power grid along side a municiple Wi-Fi network. I realize this is
in stark contrast to the direction our State leaders are currently pointing us.
Will our potential city leaders chart a similar course?
Matty Lang, Central
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