Many things the world takes for granted now didn't come into being with just
the influence of the free market. In the fairly recent time frame mass
production of micro processors would have taken forever to take off if the
US government hadn't been the big customer to start off with in its effort
trying to build more powerful computers for space and defense research. The
internet and GPS also owe much of there rapid rise and existence in the
market to actions of the US federal government.
I think when the US Federal government pulls entirely out of pushing
technologies forward and also quits pushing education forward we will no
longer be the leading economy in the world. There are several countries
poised to relegate us way down the list now as well. It scares me to think
so many people want to take the country backward to the late 1920s which
also didn't work out so well back then either.
Having said that I still don't think electric cars as the technology exists
today are a remotely good solution. The power from Coal is just a dirty
awful mess worse than gasoline and I also don't care for Hydro because of
the destruction of natural resources and devastation to certain species in
rivers it does either. But I still think pushing the technology beyond what
the free market would do is the correct thing to do as somebody other than a
capitalist investor trying to skim profits off the back of working people on
a quarterly basis is likely to come up with some revolutionary Ideas. The
corporatist often don't want anything new coming out or anybody that doesn't
control all the capital through the financial system to get access because
then it is too hard to use capital to control the system.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gillman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Miata electric conversion
Gee, think there is only one company working on this? The technology
is probably not going to come from the US because we're not investing
money in this kind of technology, China is. Solar is a good example,
we've invested $535 Million while China has invested $50 Billion. The
US is rapidly becoming a second rate nation because we have become a
Corporatacracy. The shareholder wants immediate return on investment
so there is no money for R&D just for huge salaries for CEOs..
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