Hi Dennis >Hey Keith! > >I've been enjoying your posts for some time.
Thankyou! All is not lost! >Tried to >visit one of the site's you gave in your post >concerning the PNGV & Toyota. I can't get to it or the >site is gone ......... > >http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=4959 > >Any idea if the address is still good? I'm sure it is, but I got a note from tompaine.com saying their site would be down for a few days. Try again next week I think. However... Ha! It's in the archives, you can read it here: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/10937/ Driving In Circles New Fuel-Efficiency Initiative Is More PR Than Progress by Steven Rosenfeld The Bush administration is giving Detroit a subsidy to develop hydrogen-fueled cars. But if history is a guide, automakers will use the program to cover their lack of any real progress on fuel efficiency. It's an interview with Jack Doyle. Here's the other one, while I'm at it, also at tompaine.com, Fool Cells - How Detroit Plays Americans For A Bunch Of Suckers, by Jack Doyle: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/20706/ >As long as I'm at it .......... in another post of >yours dealing with rachel.org and the "duty to >consider" you might want to be a proponent of the >concept of hanging a few politicians and/or >bureaucrats. As the "14 Points ..." stated "..past >practices have failed us". I predict after a few of >them are left swinging from the trees in front of any >given legislature the others will see a whole new way >of behavior and action. Yes! Great minds think alike (or is it that fools never differ? LOL!). We were talking about it the other night, about Japan, where, when some politician or bureaucrat or public servant or whatever does something dreadful or corrupt and is exposed, they invariably make this same public apology, saying "I apologise for disturbing the peace of the society." And that's it! On with business as usual. Now in the good old days, we were saying, when men were men and all that, they'd've have done that, yes, but also they'd've disembowelled themselves with a sword and not cavilled about it. Bring back the good old days! we said, issue them all with free swords on the National Health bill or something. Trouble is one wonders how high the survival rate might be. Or low perhaps. The big story here at the moment is about the compulsory pension fund payments everybody has to make, a contentious matter because there are more old people, fewer young ones, the budget is down and so on. So the Diet (parliament) has been legislating new measures, lots of arguments, when suddenly it's found that this particular legislator who's been pontificating about people's duty and so on, um, hasn't paid his pension fund. Ulp... Oh, he forgot, it's complicated, it takes time. Sure... And then another one, and another - scores of them haven't paid their pension fund payments. Right chaps, off you go, got your swords? There's no such thing as public disgrace now. Just off the top of my head (so to speak) I can think of a dozen recent cases, I'm sure any of us can, where people did a lot worse than disturb the peace of the society, it's all been exposed, and far from being handed swords and told to do the right thing or left swinging from the trees in front of City Hall or Corporate HQ, it hardly made them blink, they'll probably do it again. This one's my "favourite": #1 corporate criminal, ex-Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, who presided over the Bhopal disaster in India, an international fugitive from charges of culpable homicide and an extradition order from the government of India for the past 12 years after jumping bail there. He was unearthed in 2002 by a UK newspaper and Greenpeace, living a life of luxury in New York State. American authorities had always insisted they did not know his whereabouts. Greenpeace videotaped Anderson and handed him a warrant for his arrest. He denied who he was and then ran inside the house. The journalists discovered that Anderson's local golf club subscription costs $2700 a year, more than five times what Union Carbide's victims in Bhopal got for a lifetime of illness and suffering (let alone the 20,000-plus who were killed, or the poisoned babies still being born there). No sword for this guy, there's honour in seppuku, no punishment would be sufficient for Anderson. One has to leave it to his gods to take care of him in an apt manner, as they most surely will do. How has all this come to pass? Paul Krugman has something to say about it: http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/ForRicher.html For Richer By Paul Krugman NYT Magazine October 20, 2002 Good read. Yes, Dennis, it sure would put a whole new face on things. New faces, and maybe not very many of them, no queues for the job either. This is what Ben Franklin said in David Brin's "The Postman": "It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service..." Sane politicians, public servants, captains of industry, trade and finance, dedicated to service one and all? Naah, it'd never work, what a mad idea. Best wishes Keith >Best regards, > >Dennis Nelson ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. 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