“We can break our dependence on oil…and become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015,” President Obama said in his January 2011 State of the Union address.
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Cars are just a portion of our addiction to oil. Every Styrofoam cup you get at a corner store, every bottle of soda, water or milk, ever jug of washing detergent, every plastic plate, vinyl mini blinds, most of our cars interiors, our signs, carpeting, laminate flooring, vinyl flooring all of these things are byproducts of oil.
I agree... we need a better system. But what we really need is a change of thinking. Everything in our world is disposable. Washer broken? Buy a new one cheaper than to fix the old one. Car crashed? Buy a new one because its cheaper than fixing the old one. Outdated TV? That wont do... gotta have a new one because this one is 2 years old and outdated. Products are designed to be replaced not repaired. I first noticed this with VCR players. I would like to know who the marketing person is who thought this idea up? When we were little if the toaster broke, iron broke or TV went out there was a man that made his living fixing those items. Not anymore. Why pay someone 20 dollars to put a 10dollar part in a toaster when you can buy a new one for 15?
Where does all this stuff go? Just think of the huuuuuuuuuuge amounts of trash and discarded items that are buried some where under ground. What is all that stuff doing to our water supply??? We gotta start doing things differently. This disposable mentality we have been pushed into has got to change. Yes, I said pushed into. Someone on up the food chain decided why make 50-40 dollar toasters that will last, when you can make 100- 20 dollar toasters that wont last and cant be repaired so they will need to be replaced in the very near future. I'm not a conspiracy theory type of person... but if you really start to think about it... is it really just a fluke? Or is there a bigger plot at hand?
The quote above sounded good... sounded like a plan. But was it really?? Or is it just another "wag the dog" issue coming down from big brother? Are they just throwing us a bone to gnaw on while they are doing something else??
Obama proposed to spend 450 billion dollars to "stimulate and create jobs". Reeeeeeeeeaally?? Lets look at what hes doing behind the scenes to "create jobs" for the American people.
Fisker was given a loan, under Obamas watch for 529 million dollars to create a electric car. Which on the surface sounded ... a little iffy to me.. but ok.. lets just go with it. The first car, Karma ( gotta love the irony in that one) will cost almost 100 grand. 96 grand to be close, but it wont be manufactured in the US.... no no no not that the typical American person could afford a car like that, no no it will be manufactured in Finland. So tell me, how is a car manufactured in Finland that cost 100 grand going to stimulate anything in the US?
Seriously????? How can anyone read this.. and my source is the Washington Post online, and not go What???????????? or better yet... What the hell??
We, the people that are working our butts off to try and make it in this country.. paying taxes. cause the rich sure ain't paying their share... and Obama is giving it to a company to make a Karma Car in FINLAND!!!!! A car the none of us can damn sure afford.. and even those of us that could afford the damn thing will buy a less expensive model from BMW or Chevy that cost 1/2 and goes further on a charge.
" 2011 Chevy Volt sells for $40,280; a Mercedes-Benz C350 sells for $39,990. In Denmark, Renault will be selling a five-seat electric vehicle for $38,453, with the charging station costing an additional $1,875. Tesla Motors will start its Model S sedan, which has a 160 mile driving range in ideal conditions, at $57,400"
Why the hell did we spend 500 million dollars to come up with a 90,000 dollar car that will go 50 hours without a charge???? When the above listed cars will do more and look better than that cheesy looking sports car that the Obama administration spent 500 million... do y'all get it.. 500 million dollars. Double digit unemployment and we are spending 500 million... MILLION dollars on a car that we wont even manufacture!!!
Oh I'm gonna need a bp pill.... i am beyond pissed off. I work to run my little household on what money we bring in. I don't have debt because i cant afford debt.. and this moron in the White House is spending the money that my husband works hard for, like its water or grows on trees. Why is not every person in the US pissed off about this????? I have come to the conclusion that our society is broken down into 3 segments. 1) people that don't have a clue. 2) People that don't want to have a clue. 3) people that are fed up to the gills with the embezzlement of our government taking our hard earned dollars and wasting it. Yes.. i said embezzle. I think they need to be charged. Its not going to change until the 3rd group grows to be larger than groups 1 and 2. Instead of morons quitting their jobs to go camp out at Wall street.. why aren't they a few 100 miles south in Washington. Washington is wasting waaaaaaaaaaay more of our... no embezzling way more of our money than Wall Street. This is my opinion on the matter.. if ya don't like it... deal with it. But for me... I'm pissed off.
How did I get all worked up? I was being eaten alive by blood sucking mosquitoes in the yard... came inside turned the computer on to realize im being eaten alive by blood sucking mosquitoes in the government
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