A message from Detroit 5

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   Pangolin Posted 7:18 pm
   10 Dec 2008

   That's Ok CEO's. Because every time the US government pulls one of these money printing financial fantasies our currency looks more and more like Zimbabwe dollars.
   Somebody will remember whose sharp idea all of this was if all of this goes poof. Just watch out for block parties that are curiously lit. Lots of torches and pitchforks emotions being expressed these days.
   
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   Glauke Posted 8:15 pm
   10 Dec 2008

   FunnyWho said environmentalists couldn't be funny?

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   Bob Wallace Posted 1:55 am
   11 Dec 2008

   I hate it ...When environmentalists act like Republicans.
   We can be better than this....

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   JMG Posted 4:50 am
   11 Dec 2008

   If you hate it ...When environmentalists act like republicans, you must not want any republicans to be environmentalists.  How's that working out for us?
   By the way, when did environmentalism become synonymous with worship of automobiles, anyway?
   I have no problem with a massive bailout to save the auto workers and the supplier industries (all of whom can be put to work building things America actually needs) but the investors and management in those companies deserve jail more than aid -- certainly they deserve to lose their entire investments in the companies they failed to oversee responsibly.
   Rather than bailing out those firms -- which means bankrolling them so that the investors don't lose -- we should simply let them go under and announce that the US will use the bailout money as a down-payment on a complete electrified interstate, interurban, and inner-city rail network that would connect every MSA in the country.
   As Lovins says of the nuclear industry, massive injections of money on a failed economic model are like paddles on the body of a cardiac patient -- you can make it jump, but you can't bring it back to life.  
   The era of person automobility as the organizing principle of American life is over.  It's totally unaffordable environmentally and now economically.  It has caused us to bankrupt ourselves on a national scale to buy the oil it requires, while bankrupting our states and cities to serve the sprawl it creates.  It has caused the bankruptcies and even deaths of millions of individuals who are wounded or killed in the auto sprawl carnage.
   
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   Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.

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   gzuckier Posted 5:13 am
   11 Dec 2008

   here's what i don't getif it's just that the recession has stretched detroit and we spend money to bail them out instead of little guys and they go back to making cars... who's going to have the money to buy them, even if they're all of a sudden worth buying?

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