For weeks I have been beating the following drum of analysis on how properly restructuring the auto industry with pure electric hybrids is THE critical magic bullet response to everything from global warming to restoring America’s manufacturing sector to drastically curtailing our oil-producing enemies ability to fund global terrorism.
Mickiboop, a Veteran Obama Blogger, gave me a link to a recent 60 minutes episode which details the Saudi Oil Biz. While the segment is largely a commercial for the wonders of the Saudi’s Oil Empire... there were several EXTREMELY revealing moments in interviews with high Saudi officials. Especially take note of what the Saudi Oil Minister says at the end of segment #1 and the look of deep fear and defensiveness in his eyes when he says it... it totally backs up this analysis...
“ But the oil companies know the cats are out of the bag now... just like when the cigarette companies finally couldn't resist the pressures of the ultimate high court... the court of global mass public opinion (no matter how many lying 'scientists' they trotted out to support their nefarious claims that cigarettes did not cause cancer... or in the case of big oil... that global climate crisis isn't real).”
We need to take the Auto CEO's up on what they said at the house and senate hearings... that they were ready to allow for federally mandated restructuring... meaning we can finally get them to build the kind of pure electric hybrids which will actually become best-sellers all over the world.
That old addage about the Chinese symbols making the word 'crisis' are one for 'danger' and one for 'opportunity' combined was never more apt. We are literally on this razor's edge brink... on the brink of destroying ourselves via global climate destruction and on the brink of saving ourselves via a complete restructuring of the auto AND energy industries towards wind/solar electricity grids and rechargeable pure electric hybrids (especially at a time when China and India are developing exploding middle class populations who will all be looking to buy the cars of the future).
If Obama stays resolute and doesn't compromise the obviously MASSIVE leverage we now have to make a revolutionary shift to save the planet AND millions of jobs by shifting to mass production of electric hybrids... we may very well get to witness an even more momentous historic accomplishment than his Presidential victory.
Mass production of pure electric, wind/solar powered hybrids is the lynchpin essential to every aspect of Obama's America and World Transforming agenda... whether we're talking about greening the planet or creating millions of good-paying jobs, or limiting our oil-producing enemies abilities to fund global terrorism thereby greatly reducing the threat of future wars over oil.
PS-- Why do you think gas prices are going so low right now? Because the oil industry has read the above-mentioned handwriting on the global wall and they are rightly panic stricken. Better start learning how to make long-life car batteries boys if you want to survive cause we're about to break the mass homicide/suicide pact you've attempted to foist upon the entire world, WIDE OPEN.
How perfect that our American economic recovery/revitalization via pure electric hybrid vehicle production should also be intimately linked to our global ecological recovery/revitalization.
Poetic justice of historic proportions by simply applying common sense solutions.
Sounds like a winner to me.
Link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/60minutes/main4650223.shtml
We need to take the CEO's up on what they said at the house and senate hearings... that they were ready to allow for federally mandated restructuring... meaning we can finally get them to build the kind of pure electric hybrids which will actually become best-sellers all over the world.
But just ask Bob Baer, the ex-CIA middle east expert who wrote "Syriana" what the oil industry does to the people who get in the way of their profits. That explains the genuine look of fear and resignation in the CEO's eyes at the hearings.
But the oil companies know the cats are out of the bag now... just like when the cigarette companies finally couldn't resist the pressures of the ultimate high court... the court of global mass public opinion (no matter how many lying 'scientists' they trotted out to support their nefarious claims that cigarettes did not cause cancer... or in the case of big oil... that global climate crisis isn't real).
For all those suggesting bankruptcy as an option.
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By the time chapter 11 proceedings are complete... these brands would be utterly destroyed in domestic and global terms. Any corporate marketing analyst will tell you... once a brand has been destroyed... it TAKES MORE THAN A DECADE TO REGAIN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.
The American automakers are doing well overseas... why?... because they have been forced to build and supply ENERGY EFFICIENT VEHICLES.
BY FORCE INJECTING OBAMA'S GREEN VISION ON THESE WAYWARD BEHEMOTHS... WE CAN SAVE THE COMPANIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MARKETS FROM WHAT MOST ECONOMISTS PREDICT WOULD LEAD TO TRIGGERING A GLOBAL DEPRESSION. Even if this assessment is only 50% likely to be correct... that is not a chance worth taking.
MILLIONS of American jobs are intimately connected to the auto industry.
Additionally, no one will buy a car from a bankrupt company.
Case closed.
700 billion for white collar Wall Street and not even 14 billion to save millions of blue collar jobs here at home? Stop smoking crack and get better informed before spouting off your union-busting, depression instigating swill here.
The top Automobile Executives have already pledged to allow the Fed to have a HUGE hand in restructuring this vital and stricken industry. It is CRITICAL to the revitalization of the American and Global economies that we accept their desperate invitation and finally manage these companies in a way which will benefit everyone... by building products the world market will be clamoring for... pure electric hybrids.
No corner of the globe is yet immune to the painful condition that has plagued the entirety of human history... our self-destructive worst instincts and behaviors vs. our best attempts to live as one... free of the fear and loathing which leaves the world enslaved and leads inevitably to ruin.
America the Promised Land vs. America the front for global thieves has been a battle raging since the Revolutionary War when the first congressmen included war profiteers who got rich by selling shoddy equipment to our armed forces. Sound familiar?
Angels and demons... angels and demons... for as much as we like to pretend how far we've advanced in the last two hundred years... hell... the last two thousand... not much has really changed... sure, the slaves have better quarters now and we live longer... but the same old master/servant paradigms of fear and the minions who serve them, scratch and claw for every twisted minute of control they can wrestle away from the all-inclusive sane.
If we're going to change this struggle for the soul of the world and the shape of reality... it will start with a continuation of the self-same mass awakening that it took to get Obama elected in the first place.
But let's not kid ourselves good people of this Good Fight... electing Obama has simply gotten the epic battle between our better angels and our worst demons to a draw... which is a whole lot better than the parade of "go f yourselves" evil we've had to endure for the past eight years... hell, since the modern war profiteers blew up Jack and Martin and Bobby...
So now we've got to finish the job with a combination of the love of harmonizing saints and the cunning of ruthless wolves... because the industries of mass death are like deeply dug in ticks, and they're not going to give up their blood feast willingly... we'll have to outsmart the vampire zombies if we expect to truly save this nation... we'll have to show them better ways to make even more money than the way they are doing it now via war and the mass strangulation of the planet with fossil fuels.
Like I said... as patient and loving as harmonizing saints and as cunning and ruthless in our right makes might purpose as well-coordinated wolves.
If I haven't bored you to death by now...see my posts on transforming our industries of mass death into the means of American reconstruction... helping to build high speed rail to link our cities to our suburbs... helping to build massive solar arrays and the wind corridor..
We'll beat our swords into soaring stock shares (at least a goodly portion of the antiquated budget bloating ones that the Dept. of Defense should have ended years ago)... the beast will be exorcised and our Promised Land Balance restored... and so too the world... because the lifeblood of every culture under the sun courses through the heart of this American Dream... and the Founders' sacred trust of Liberty and Justice for ALL shines in the still-believing faces of every culture's color and in the generational songs of every faith and therein resides our greatest hope.
The cost of Liberty IS eternal vigilance... that and the courage to stand up for what we know in our hearts, minds and very bones is RIGHT.
YES WE CAN !!!
YES WE WILL !!!
YES WE MUST !!!
IN THE COMMON GOOD, AMERICA AND OURSELVES WE TRUST !!!
LIVE FREE OR BUST !!!
By the time chapter 11 proceedings are complete... these brands would be utterly destroyed in domestic and global terms. Any corporate marketing analysts will tell you... once a brand has been destroyed... it TAKES MORE THAN A DECADE TO REGAIN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.
As a general rule I try never to get personal in my responses here but this time I am compelled to make an exception considering HOW MANY MILLIONS OF AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE ON THE LINE... NOT TO MENTION A LOOMING NATIONAL AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.
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"Josh and Kade"...I suggest you research the history of how and why unions got started in this country to begin with.
Women and children shot down in cold blood by corporately owned goon squads for daring to protest HORRIFIC working conditions.
Once you've absorbed that, if you still hold the same opinions as expressed in your ignorant post... you need some serious help.
The unions have stated REPEATEDLY that they are ready willing and able to make concessions regarding everything from pay to pensions.
Not to mention... that once Obama and Congress deliver on universal healthcare reforms... a big fat chunk of the financial solvency problems will be taken care of.
For example... by simply mandating that all health insurers go to a single computerized claims protocol... fully 40% of healthcare costs will be reduced.
But hey... if giving even MORE power to the same corporate barons who have raped the working class since the industrial revolution is your thing... then might I suggest you join up with that dying dinosaur of a political party across the street since you're already supporting them anyway with your union-busting tripe.
At this critical point in American History... the ignorance you display in your comments is worse than just ill-informed, it's downright dangerous.
Your so-called 'independent contractors' 'negotiating' with corporate owners would truly be laughable if it wasn't so completely inane and destructive to workers rights.
History has proven that collective bargaining ALONE is the only way to get corporate power to the table in the first place, let alone achieve reasonable living wages and benefits.
Try peddling your union-busting snake oil somewhere else.
WE"RE NOT BUYING.
The brain-dead party of Herbert Hoover, The "Great Depressor" is at it again.
Why would the RepubliThugs block the auto bailout of 14 billion for millions of American workers after serving up 700 billion dollars to the fat laughing thieving pigs of Wall Street?
Because the ill-informed public has shown it does not support the auto bailout. Translation? The desperate and dying RepubliThugs are playing poll-driven politics plain and simple.
What do they care if millions of Americans lose their jobs, their health benefits, their homes. These RepubliPigs all got paid already, have the best healthcare money can buy, and usually two homes AT LEAST.
Keep it up swine... we'll be casting you out soon enough until all that's left in Washington are Progressives, independents and moderates who actually give a crap about WE THE PEOPLE.
PS -- Remember Old fart Bush the first's promise that "America would be dragged kicking and screaming into the 'new world order'"... well folks, this is exactly what that fossilized f*** meant.
Gut American manufacturing... sell it all off to slave labor markets because hell... America has just become a nation of cross-breeding mutts anyway right KKK RepubliThugs? Remember Katrina? The war of lies in Iraq? The Wall Street Steal-a-thon called a 'bailout'?... they are selling us out and selling us off... and when millions more homes are foreclosed on... they can repay their buddies in Saudi Arabia and China who will then buy everything up {which they've already BEEN doing for years now by the way} until all that's left of America is the flag these sleazoid vampire zombies hide behind the entire time they are raping and pillaging the American Dream.
Wake up good people. Electing Obama was only step one. Until we cut the corporate puppet strings controlling Congress and their lawmaking capacity we will continue to be sold down shit creek.
See my previous posts on the 'No Bribes Allowed' Constitutional Amendment which bans corporate lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function once and for all. Until then, prepare for more of the nightmarish same.
END CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF CONGRESS NOW BEFORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONLY EXISTS AS AN HISTORICAL REFERENCE.
THE HARD PART HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED... GATHERING OURSELVES INTO A POLITICAL FORCE... NOW IT'S TIME TO EXERT THAT FORCE TO THE MAXIMUM SO WE CAN SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY AND SO... OURSELVES.
UNITED WE STAND... DIVIDED WE GO BUST.
Until we muster the courage to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning all lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function via legalized bribery that keeps the house and senate legislating in favor of corporate interests above and beyond the interests of We The People... until THAT historic day... we will continue to be mired down by the swamp of corruption even if we do have a good man as President.
Yes... Obama will be the chief executive... but he cannot write the laws. As long as THAT critical function is left to the lobbyists... a government for and by we the people, is nothing more than words on a page... a cruel hoax.
The men and women who have DIED for those Liberty preserving words deserve better...we all do.
The lobbyist legalized bribes that have virtually destroyed our Constitution are completely against everything our founders ever intended.
The airwaves that broadcast all TV are owned by THE PEOPLE. Make all national political ads free and there is no need for the bribes which bind.
Prostituting the first amendment as a cover for raping the national treasury and trust is NOT what the Founders had in mind, and is clearly superceded by the essential need to restore our Congressional lawmaking body to serving the interests of a TRULY REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT THAT IS FOR AND BY WE THE PEOPLE.
LET'S GET IT DONE BEFORE THIS MALIGNANCY IN THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY CAN DO ANY MORE DAMAGE.
Why do you think gas prices are going so low right now? Because the following strategy is precisely what the globe-strangling oil industry fears most.
I know many of you have seen this appeal already... but considering how DENSE Congress is, and how devoid of common sense solutions they are... I am forced to repeat this revolutionary concept yet again.
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book... AMERICAN REVOLUTION II... it was originally posted immediately following the election.
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The American Automobile Industry has proven one thing emphatically... It is literally TOO STUPID TO LIVE (In it's current brain-dead form).
The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally GOLDEN opportunity to achieve some MAJOR campaign goals. How?
Simple.
Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? Fine. In order to get it, you will dump your top management and resurrect the EV1. That's right... GM's original best electric car.
JUST AS IT WAS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO CONVERT AUTO PRODUCTION DURING WWII TO BUILD THE WEAPONS WHICH DEFEATED HITLER, SO TOO NOW WE WILL CONVERT OUR GAS GUZZLING MIDDLE EAST OIL ADDICTION INDUSTRY INTO ONE WHICH FREES US FROM THAT CORPORATE CRACK-PIPELINE ADDICTION ONCE AND FOR ALL.
More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE. The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves. Another huge plus regarding the EV1 is that the production techniques already exist since it was produced in the 1990's for the California zero-emission imperative.
As a matter of fact... while we're at it... let's just boot the top executives and boards... force these strategic manufacturing changes, and then fill the management posts with vetted public service appointments. After all, if we're going to be the chief shareholders... it SHOULD be up to us how these companies are run.
Socialism shmocialism... I WANT PRACTICAL RESULTS NOT THE SAME OLD INCOMPETENT FAT PIG GLUTTONY & THIEVERY.
GM's bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. Yeah right. What do you say we try that again and you won't have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT.
As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! Plus... we won't even have to wait for developmental ramp-up BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR THE EV1 ALREADY EXISTS!!!
Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.
You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100's of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.
So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? FINE... WE'RE TAKING YOU OVER AND MASS PRODUCING THE EV1 NOW!!!
Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).
YES WE CAN!!!
YES WE WILL!!!
YES WE MUST!!!
PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... a car that a GM VP admitted yesterday on MSNBC would not even be able to mass produce the essential batteries until 2010 AT BEST... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla RIGHT NOW.
Simple really. OPEC and the Exxon/Mobils of the world are running scared... Why? Because the current American auto manufacturer restructuring gives us the truly golden opportunity to revolutionize an about to explode global demand for pure electric, wind and solar rechargeable cars.
With the exponential growth of China and India's middle class... whoever is first to mass produce electric cars with a REAL driving range of 100 miles per charge will truly become the next manufacturing superpower... and guess what... AMERICA ALREADY HAS THE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE THIS ECONOMY SAVING DREAM A REALITY.
All the economic experts have projected China to overtake our economy in about ten years... well, HERE'S A NEWS FLASH FOR THE SO-CALLED EXPERTS... IF WE START MASS PRODUCING THE EV! ELECTRIC VEHICLE WE CAN STOP THAT SLAVE LABOR/BRUTAL TYRANNY BY CHINA IN IT'S WORLD DOMINATING/TWISTING TRACKS.
And then of course there's even more job creating possibilities...
High speed rail buildout linking our cities to our suburbs may be one of the most important infrastructure job creators America can muster. All plans for highway and bridge rebuilding should integrate a high speed rail system at the onset so as to not end up making such rail buildout more difficult down the road.
Combine these efforts with turbine buildout of the wind corridor along with vast solar arrays in our desert southwest and a mass production of EV1 already existing electric auto manufacture which will create HUGE international demand for a KEY American product line... and just watch how we turn a near depression into one of the biggest and longest sustained economic booms the world has ever seen.
High speed rail is also an excellent way to rechannel bloated defense industry contractors/ jobs into constructive infrastructure jobs thereby thwarting the all too common business urge of military industrial contractors to sabotage attempts to pare down the defense budget... which happens to be the most likely place (DOD) to find billions in essential federal budget savings.
Of course, it also makes sense to increase vital funding for Veterans Affairs... what better more common sensical place to get that essential funding than from bloated unneccessary defense programs/antiquated weapons systems. Naturally, this will require a Secretary of Defense with both the military stature and political wisdom to get this cost-cutting job done with the least amount of corporate/political interference/sabotage.
Colin Powell or some like-minded military hero/pragmatist would be best suited to this all-important reform function cabinet post.
Given our current economic woes, no one can successfully argue against the simple fact that ONLY the most essential weapons systems are the ones worth funding anymore... especially support of our veterans as the ultimate living weapons system.
This integrated approach to national repair will succeed because it recognizes the essential rot and corruption which has led to financial disaster across all economic fronts and addresses them all with a comprehensive no-nonsense approach that has been sorely lacking in our governmental function for far too long.
America has the innovation and the spirit of team effort essential for success in rebuilding our nation. Now it's high time we prove this to ourselves and to the entire watching world.
No corner of the globe is yet immune to the painful condition that has plagued the entirety of human history... our self-destructive worst instincts and behaviors vs. our best attempts to live as one, free of the fear and loathing which leaves the world enslaved and leads inevitably to ruin.
America the Promised land vs. America the front for global thieves has been a battle raging since the Revolutionary War when the first congressmen included war profiteers who got rich by selling shoddy equipment to our armed forces. Sound familiar?
If I haven't bored you to death by now...see my posts on transforming our industries of mass death into the means of American reconstruction... helping to build high speed rail to link our cities to our suburbs... helping to build massive solar arrays and the wind corridor...
Obama Bloggers not allowed access to march in the innaugural parade?
Considering re-election will require the same grassroots effort, I'm stunned by this obvious snub and lack of good judgement.
Certainly, the nation has far bigger fish to fry... with 533,000 more jobs being lost in November and the auto makers about to go bust...two wars to end...
I was not going to be able to make it to DC anyway (a fact which still pains me), but I was looking forward to seeing my compatriots from this amazing community, carrying our banner on that historic day.
Alas... such is the lot of the hard-working life blood of America dear friends... the red in the red white and blue is all too often taken for granted...whether on the battlefield, or in the sphere of political battle.
I'll celebrate the day anyway, and I'll fight for every inch of middle class restoration our movement lived as its central rallying call, in every policy initiative and legislative struggle to come... and I will never forget what we accomplished here for our nation... because the ultimate banner is the one we hold high in our hearts... the one we've held high all these long months as we've struggled to redeem this great nation... and it simply says... "We Reclaim An America For And By WE THE PEOPLE."
Thanks for making the effort anyway Lisa from Texas and JFK Fan. Your devotion to this cause will not be forgotten.
PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla.
It is indeed ironic that we in the over-intellectualizing West, don't, generally speaking, have the basic philosophical ability to grasp the simple and all-important concept of duality... From Obama's hybrid nature as a black AND white American... to his ideological stance as both "good cop & bad cop" (merciful and conciliatory & tough-minded and disciplinary).
While the political far left sees Obama's appointments as an overly conservative betrayal... the political far right sees these appointments as superficial "window dressing."
The truth, as usual, resides in the middle... a fact this fortunately wise beyond his years president-elect grasps in no uncertain terms. These complex times call specifically for a world leader who can walk and chew multi-variant policy positions at the same time. Especially when considering the challenge of being tough on global terrorism while simultaneously employing more nuanced diplomacy to encourage terror-prone hotbeds to become more cooperative and stable. This dualistic balance is perfectly displayed by the foreign policy team Obama has assembled and introduced today. Combined with his committment to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure, creating millions of good American jobs, simultaneous to repairing our deteriorated global image... it becomes clear that America has chosen it's next president wisely.
The only problem now is the nearly two month wait for him to finally be sworn in.
