Originally Posted by blackberry

Instead of closing automobile plants we should be retooling them to build cheap electric cars. Show me a family that wouldn't buy a second or third car for just the daily chores if it only cost cents to charge, was under twenty thousand and could travel two hundred miles between charges. If you saved fifty dollars a week in fuel it would amount to your monthly car payment. The government could actually give you an energy rebate to assist with the cost of the car. We spend a Billion an month on the war in Iraq and Afganistan.

Someone out there also has the know how to retrofit small cars like a neon with electric technology if the money was right. We just need to think outside the box as country.

If I was a large oil company raking in Billions of dollars in profits, I already would be using my R&D for the future which will not be oil. Sadly, I am afraid our country is not flexible enough to accept this kind of a challenge.

Enough rantings from an old fool.