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To: SilentZ who wrote (436707)	11/25/2008 8:43:30 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574055

... Leftish technocrats, in particular, love to believe that the complex operations of the entire economy choose technologies that are inferior to those the technocrat would have imposed on the economy had she been in charge. .... coyoteblog.com If only you had a few hundred billion dollars to spend on trains and could forcibly relocate people to where they ought to live ...

To: SilentZ who wrote (436707)	11/25/2008 9:26:48 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574055

We need to spend a couple hundred billion on trains. No doubt about it. That, and light rail. But I still think energy provides the most bang for the buck... because there is an ROI. You can subsidize the more exotic stuff like solar and wind, but even subsidizing improved building efficiency (insulation, windows, etc) will get you almost to, and sometimes past, break even in savings. So you spend $1 on the subsidy and the lower energy bills return $0.90 to the economy, plus you create taxable jobs... a no brainer. Same is true with MPG efficient cars on a less dramatic scale. Subsidize a turn over in the automobile fleet to more efficient cars and the price of gas will go down, PLUS the more efficient cars will use less gas, and that money not 'going up in fumes' will return to the economy. And maybe we can save Detroit in the process.