Comments on: New Report on Cars and Carbon

By: Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:04:55 +0000

Just this week in reaction to a bridge collapse over the Mississippi our dear government sent a major (another one) transportation bill in the billions of dollars out into the public aimed at making highway overpasses and bridges safe. This is a good thing. However, the 2 to 3 billion dollars of pure pork tied to the end of it just to keep the good old boy's happy is a disgrace!. So long as our Senators and Congressmen, and yes the President reallize that the American people are looking at these bills will we ever get responsable legislative enactments. It hasn't been too long that a bill was passed for our security, tied to the end of it was $77,000,000.00 to protect peanuts from terrorist attack!. Politics is a give and take process. However in this type of governmental nonsense American's who work and pay the taxes are doing the giving and only the good Lord know's to whom were giving the take.

By: rwjonessr

rwjonessr — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:29:25 +0000

you are 100% correct, but each administraton come's to the fight with a plan, and second plan how to get out of it (such as this would put people out of work to cap cap sales with lower CO2 emmissions) and it go's on and on) It's worse than health care, yet this is globally fatal!. If that is you have the good sense to understand it. We must 'mandate' and I mean pass 'laws' that make it necessar that it be done or else. The green belt between our iner/inra states are already state owned their is no property right's to fight. It's a matter of doing it, something like the old WPA at 63 almost 64 I want my grandchildren to not face an ice age. Bless you for your feedback.

By: jdecicco

jdecicco — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:04:13 +0000

I agree that high speed rail is a great idea, but we'll need both cleaner cars and car alternatives (including HSR and other innovations) to limit CO2 to climate protection levels.

By: rwjonessr

rwjonessr — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:13:49 +0000

Our focus is wrong. Europe, England, France, Japan all have high speed inter/intra country rail systems. Dwight D Eisenhour mandate a Federally Funded highway system nationwide. Begetween opposeing lanse is/exists a green belt which would beare a high speed mono rail train system. In 1962 Japan had a train running on reverse magnetic polariy that would do 360 MPH. So you tell me!. Are the auto makers gonna change. NO!. Can we do this YES!
We must mandate it and it will happen!. Clean, comfortable, and FAST. Imageine the jobs and material we could use doing this in a nationwide defined way?. It is our only way to reduce automobile co2 emission's 30-35% within the next 5 years.