California is gearing up to make the cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland the epicentre of an electric car revolution.
The plan to create the infrastructure required for a fully functioning electric vehicle society was announced just last week by each of the three cities’ mayors. The policies will provide incentives to employers to install EV chargers in their buildings, expedite battery changing facilities, install electrical outlets in all government buildings, promote the purchase of EVs, and improve local regulations and standards. The total cost of the program is expected to amount to around one billion dollars, and California’s government will be teaming up with the electric transportation company Better Place to install the required infrastructure.
Governor Ted Kulongosk wants to replace Oregon’s $1,500 hybrid tax credit with a $5,000 electric vehicle credit.
And what is Washington State doing to get its residents into electric cars?
Even McCain saw the writing on the wall well before election day.
How else would one explain McCain’s announcement that he would not be attending his own victory party on November 2 due to space constraints. Huh?
Although a strong argument could be make that it sucks to be McCain right now, John should take some comfort in the fact that there was an even bigger loser this election season. Who was it? The corporate media, of course.
No matter what meta-narrative the corporate press pushed, the unwashed masses were not buying it this election cycle. Remember the inevitability of Rudy Giuliani? How about Hillary Clinton?
Oh, and what about all of the smears breathlessly repeated by the corporate media which failed to stick during the campaign?
Obama is exotic (read black) and somehow foreign. Foreign people with funny names can sometimes be terrorist. Obama knew a terrorist, so he must be one too.
Unswayed, the corporate media decided to double down on failure and laud McCain’s v.p. pick of the frightfully incompetent Sarah Pallin as the most politically cunning move executed during the whole presidential campaign.
Outside the media’s bubble, real voters were appalled.
Hillary supporters were furious that McCain would assume they would vote for any women regardless of her record, and Republicans were equally repelled by McCain’s willingness to put an unqualified idiot into the number two slot if it would focus some media attention on his dying campaign.
In short, instead of turning around McCain’s failing campaign as predicted by the talking heads, the Pallin pick was the begining of the end for McCain. Way to see that coming corporate spin meisters!
It has often been said that John McCain’s base is the media. This year proves it.
However, if McCain wants to stay in politics, it might be time to find some new peeps to bring him sprinkle donuts.
Remember, way back in a time far, far away, when the President of the United States would make public appearances, issue statements, and the American people would feel reassured during a crisis.
That’s not the case with George Bush. When W. shows his face, the people panic–and for good reason.
By now, most Americans would admit Bush has a knack for creating disasters. After all, he has quite an impressive track record: Iraq, Katrina, the Wall Street Meltdown, the foreclosure crisis, ect. Not to mention the melting polar ice caps, California’s year round wildfires, and his Administration’s over all assault on facts or anything scientific.
America has also sadly discovered that Bush may be a genius when it comes destroying value, but his talent quickly evaporates once he is tasked with mopping up the wreckage he created.
Maybe this is the reason Bush is not out selling the idea that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The economy just can’t take it.
Did someone time how long it took Harry Reid to capitulate to the toothless turn-coat Joe Lieberman?
Harry, we are on to you–and no one is buying your bull anymore. I don’t care if Obama wants Lieberman in the caucus. You are in charge of the Senate, not the President. (This seems to be a lesson you are unwilling to learn whether there is a Republican or Democrat in the White House.)
Majority Leaders do what is right for their party and by extension, for the voters who put them in the Senate. Sacrificing a voter driven mandate for change, in order to preserve the congenial ass-slapping in the Senate chamber, is not acceptable.
I am absolutely fed up with the U.S. auto industry and the pig-headed brain trust running the show.
Let me get this straight.
The taxpayers need to bailout Detroit after The Big Three refused to innovate their products, killed the electric car, and manipulated Congress and the EPA into refusing California’s clean car waiver??
Right.
Here is what needs to happen before I would even consider throwing more money into this corporate money pit.
First, layoffs will begin with the CEO’s, CFO’s, and work their way down through the corporate management before one line worker is out of a job. And you can forget about your golden parachute boys.
Second, Detroit will build plug-in hybrids and/or electric vehicles. No exceptions.
Third, the American auto industry will not hinder California and the 17 other states who are trying to implement clean car legislation. California will get its waiver and the auto industry will not sue to block it.
If the United States wants to get out of the economic hole created by Bush and his Democratic enablers in Congress, the federal government has to stop rewarding failure.
Obama and the Democrats crushed the Republicans because voters felt they would do a better job than Bush in handling the economy.
Given that assumption, why do the Democrats want to blindly dump more of our money into the failing auto industry that has stubborly refused to acknowledge reality and innovate their products?
