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Tales of a New Economy: Reducing Obesity and Oil Dependency …

www.talesofaneweconomy.com12/20/11

Reducing Obesity and Oil Dependency One Pedal At A Time. Besides being in Holland at the moment, the bike capital of the world, I'm rather biased when it comes to discussing the effectiveness of bikes as a means of …

Americans will never be free from Oil dependency, where have all …

www.ufofreebandclub.com12/29/11

Americans will never be free from Oil dependency, where have all the electric cars gone? (Big Brother has been busy). 1996 was the first production of electric cars, the EV1 (Electric Vehicle 1), produced by General Motors in …

New pumps at gas stations have slowly started to appear, and there will hopefully soon be a lot more of them because they don’t pump gasoline, but hydrogen.

The pump looks just like a gas pump except that the Shell one has blue writing instead of Shell’s familiar red and yellow logo.

I personally believe it’s really exciting that Chevrolet, Honda, Chrysler and most other car manufacturers believe that by 2015, that their car production could be sufficiently ramped-up to make Hydrogen viable as a real fuel alternative.

Can you imagine how nice it will feel not to be bent over an Arab oil barrel !?
Shad Balch, who is the Advanced Technology Product Spokesman for General Motors said, “Right now, we’ve put more than 100 fuel cell Chevy vehicles on the road to demonstrate that the technology is real, that it’s not a science project, that we can use this sort of application hopefully that will spur the investment into the infrastructure”.

Acura Public Relations Spokesperson Jessica Fini says that companies are already in the product demonstration phase and that vehicles are already being leased by everyday American’s who want to help do what they can to end the oil dependency.

You fill the car with hydrogen just like you would with gas and after about five minutes you’re ready to go about 250 miles, and your vehicle won’t be emitting anything except water vapor!

Is there a downside?

Well the new vehicles won’t cost much below $50,000 in 2015, but the hydrogen will be much cheaper than gasoline, and of course the car prices will come down too once they’re on the main assembly lines.

Interest in alternative energy sources peaked a couple of years ago when gas prices peaked and the enthusiasm waned as the prices fell but the latest BP oil spill has once again renewed the public’s interest in alternative fuels.

The changes to global politics will be enormous once the west is weaned off oil, and Russia and some other countries are apparently already looking into how they will survive financially when their main source of income has disappeared.

After Failure Of SOPA and PIPA Obama and Reid Reloading With …

www.nowtheendbegins.com2/7/12

They won't quit until they control it all. Details about the bill remain shrouded in secrecy. Clues available to the public suggest that the bill might be stronger than President Barack Obama's cybersecurity proposal, which was released in May …

What would you suggest for President Obama's new campaign …

caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com2/21/12

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: It's time for a change from Change We Can Believe In. President Obama's re-election campaign is looking for a new slogan to replace his 2008 mantras of hope and change. … Reuters reports that some of the contenders include Winning the Future, Greater Together and We Don't Quit. … The campaign probably won't roll out the official slogan until the president knows who his Republican challenger will be, and that might take a while.

But Most Americans Now Wish That He Would!

Obama To Push The Same Failed Agendas

Perhaps the he most revelatory words from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address were the ones that he uttered near to the end of his speech, "I don’t quit’, and what became clear was that he intends to pursue his favored agendas that caused the loss of Massachusetts and most likely Virginia and New Jersey as well.

And many pundits are now considering that his rejection of the public’s will, might well cause Pelosi to lose control of the house.

What Does Obama Still Want?

He Implied That He Would Continue To Push For:

a) A government takeover of health care.
b) An already rejected cap-and-trade legislation that would raise taxes and power costs.
c) Another stimulus bill, even though only 30% of the first $700 billion has so far made its way into the system and the real jobless rate is now at 17.3%

It’s presently far too common for journalists to avoid mentioning the 17.3% figure which is the true one.

* Aren’t people that gave up looking for a job "unemployed"?

The Inconsistent Messages

After seeming to agree that private businesses create jobs, Obama then proposed some business tax breaks but then segued into promoting his big government ideas by suggesting that more subsidies for green jobs and mass transit projects like high-speed rail would be needed.

He then recommended a spending freeze on a small portion of the 2011 budget which the liberals are strongly against, but went on to add that it would not happen until after he had increased spending this year.

*  A ‘spending freeze’ means that past spending increases will still be locked into the budget.

Obama Will Effectively Raise Taxes

Obama then boasted that he hadn’t raised taxes, but he failed to mention that he will let income tax increases go into effect – by letting the Bush tax cuts lapse at the end of this year.

An Attempt At Bi-Partisanship?

Obama seemingly reached out to Republicans by suggesting that he was in favor of more nuclear power plants and an increased exploration of offshore oil, but what he didn’t mention was that his failed cap-and-trade bill didn’t mention nuclear power or the expansion of domestic oil production.

A Call For Greater Unity?

Under the banner of bringing about unity, Obama went on to attack bankers, corporate executives and lobbyists and even verbally assaulted the U.S. Supreme Court for upholding the speech rights of companies in last week’s ruling on corporate campaign contributions, and we even saw Supreme Court Justice Alito mouthing the words, "Not true"!

Bill Clinton Saw The Light

Bill Clinton was quick to see that the only chance of survival was by moving to the political center after suffering stunning election losses in 1994, but Obama for all his supposed brilliance has not yet grasped the nettle, and his message still favored a big government approach with a possible smattering of tax breaks and other sleights of hand in an attempt to provide his extreme left wing policies with a different veneer.