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DEFINE THE ISSUES OF SUSTAINABILITY FIRST
--Think, then take action: hit the Start Button
By Jim Miller
November 17, 2008

The real issues are:

1. Transportation. Our national planning has been built on the internal combustion engine which was built on cheap oil. Our society followed this model to produce a ?dumbbell? layout of our cities. Dumbbell Planning versus Integrated Community Planning: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/DUMBBELL+PLANNING+VERSUS+INTEGRATED+COMMUNITY+PLANNING
2. As need for housing grew, cheaper land in the urban fringe was developed, increasing the driving distances. The mass transit systems fail to solve the ?last mile? issue. How to Get the Right Answers to the Right Questions: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/search/everything/HOW%2BTO%2BGET%2BTHE%2BRIGHT%2BANSWERS%2BTO%2BTHE%2BRIGHT%2BQUESTIONS.?contains=HOW%2BTO%2BGET%2BTHE%2BRIGHT%2BANSWERS%2BTO%2BTHE%2BRIGHT%2BQUESTIONS .
3. Job location became disjointed from living locations. Hard-Wired Traffic; http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/HARD-WIRED+TRAFFIC
4. So too have shopping, schools, health centers, financial, government, and other centers.
5. More and larger roads did not ?solve? the problem of vehicles clogging the travel arteries.
6. Housing: City planners, oblivious to this trend, continued to segregate living space from the other centers. They designed cities for the benefit of vehicles and not for the benefit of people. Planning as if People Mattered: http://leaguedemorepub.wetpaint.com/page/PLANNING+AS+IF+PEOPLE+MATTERED ;
7. Rural towns died as rural wages fell, farm family?s needed second and third incomes, which meant longer commutes. More cars, more fuel, more pollution resulted. The Evisceration of Rural America: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/THE+EVISCERATION+OF+RURAL+AMERICA
8. Farm families sent their children to college and the military, who found higher quality of life elsewhere. More farms were sold to developers.
9. Food: The food chain continues to grow longer, riding on a bed of cheap oil. The average food product travels 1500 miles from the producer to the consumer,
10. More and bigger shopping centers, big box stores selling slavery wage goods produced offshore, added to the massing of vehicle use. We became more of a ?throwaway? society, stoking our landfills.
The solutions are:
1. Cut the number of trip miles in half.
2. Switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors.
3. Grow our own food and fuel. Algal Oil Diesel: http://algaloildiesel.wetpaint.com ; Mutual Aid Society of America, Mondragon and More: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/MUTUAL+AID+SOCIETY+OF+AMERICA%2C+MONDRAGON+AND+MORE
4. Stop or greatly reduce importation of foreign oil.
5. Build clustered eco-villages and they will come. We will work where we live and live where we work. Cluster Development; http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/CLUSTER+DEVELOPMENT
6. Self-sufficient, sustainable eco-villages will grow most of their own food using biodynamic agriculture (permaculture). The Econo Campus: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/THE+ECONO+CAMPUS . Most of their needs will be met on-site: food, housing, jobs, education, health care, energy production, networking in person and via the Internet, child care and elder care. A Coherent Community: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/A+COHERENT+COMMUNITY
7. We will need good soil, good water and clean air. Instead of burning straw, we will harvest it and make syngas and biochar. A Place in the Country: http://www.ruralstrategies.org/projects/place.html
8. We will be energy independent, but will sell any of our excess energy production using as local Peoples Utility District which sponsors production of green electricity distributed locally using the MESH network technology.
9. We will build energy efficient straw bale houses: http://strawbalebuilders.wetpaint.com/
10. We will turn-in our old and worn-out gas guzzlers to the scrap yard and convert our light trucks and cars to hybrid electric-diesel plug-ins.
And the above is just some of the starters which can be accomplished inside of one year from hitting the start button.

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STOP THE GM-CHRYSLER SERIAL ECONOMIC RAPE OF AMERICA - PART I
--GM ate it own child and spit-out a most efficient battery.
By Jim Miller

Problem

General Motors ate it own child, the very successful electric cars, the EVA-1 and -2. GM also first suppressed a revolutionary battery, then sold the rights to Chevron which killed it. Let's not reward GM's capacity to defraud America on the electric car issue. Kill the proposed Bush Bail out of GM and Chrysler. We have better plans for Chrysler.

The sordid and sad tale of GM's best and only electric cars, the EVA's as they came to a tragic death. GM recovered ALL of the EVAs as their leases ran out, then crushed them, then had them chipped into thousands of pieces. GM learned some lessons from the EVA, namely that the plug-in only electric car, equipped with a state-of-the art set of batteries could run 150 miles between charges. The second lesson was that because the cars were cheaper to build and had very little maintenance over a ten year or longer period, the car would obsolete the vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, which needed constant repair and adjustment. These eclectic electric cars would hit the new and used auto dealerships also, since as large portion of their income depended on engine tune-ups, repairs and replacements.

A fairly large number of documentaries and video clips challenge GM's decision to kill the EVA cars and also documents the efforts of Toyota, Honda and others, to suppress their electric, plug-in vehicles. GM will offer the Chevy Volt as the ?replacement?. The Volt is hydrogen powered (thus requiring hydrogen fuel ? not commercially available at the ?pump? and preserves some of the high cost repair profiles of the internal combustion engine.

These videos as summaries, does not do justice to the value of the lessons learned, but are important ?points of entry?. Go to YouTube and type in ?who killed the electric car? in the search box to get the list of videos.

Watching the clips should energize the viewers to take action to prevent the GM-Chrysler bail out as currently proposed. The best use of US Treasury money would be to buy a controlling interest in Chrysler and turn it over to a really green management team which would rename it as the Chrysler Electric Auto Company (CEAC). CEAC would make only electric plug-in and electric plug-in hybrids. Over time, it would repurchase the older cars and trucks and convert them to electric vehicles. The full story can be read at a mock website of Chrysler: Chrysler Electric Auto Company,

Summary of video clips and films

Who killed the electric car?(not the batteries) Who killed the advanced technology battery for the electric car? Story of GM's purchase and suppression of the new battery and it's death at the hands of Chevron. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J5f9x_RfHI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6R2j3OTXQ&feature=related

ECD Ovonics : Make It Happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nC2HmcLCSo&feature=related

?Who Killed the Electric Car? Haunted by the ghost of the electric car. Trailer for ?Who Killed the Electric Car?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGG4rNMuMac


Alternative Energy and the Americas; Center for Latin American Studies; Stanford R. Ovshinsky, UC Berkeley; April 8, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYxoacwuxg&NR=1 Background of Stan Ovshinsky, self-taught physicists and is responsible for discovering the fundamentals of the persistent state of changes leading to the invention of the transistor and CD.


wktec crush electric car ev1 Story of GM crushing the EV-1s Listen to the lies told by a GM representative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEIJrdoDmyw&feature=related

Review of ?Who Killed the Electric Car?? Two gals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk81OUcmhYo&feature=related


Killing the Electric Car - USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AU3_2IT8k8&feature=related


Who Killed the Electric Car? You did http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAbj6N9nA0&feature=related

EV1 rises from the dead: how long will GM let it live? http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UjKG5bVeCDs&feature=related


Cheverol Volt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgTcdfkihE4&feature=related

Chevy Volt, Scuderia Spider, BMW CS -Fast Lane Daily-05Sept http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3j1t3yCnS0&feature=related

Chevy Volt Eflex system, fuel cell, ethanol, gasoline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM4F1qtAEyI&feature=related

Unlimited car range ? the Electric car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0SB5psrVCM&feature=related

Dodge electric Li-ion Car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgX_2csdKE&feature=related

Honda EV Plus http://www.honda.com/ev-plus/?

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Honda EV Plus home made vido http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XbuzD9oog

Dodge Zeo electric car ? close up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbCSXwaKM7w&feature=related

Opel Unveils the Flextreme Electric Concept at IAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4k8S3lCyYU&feature=related

Mitsubishi i MiEV electric car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euKMi3APHP8&feature=related

Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens eCorner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPSoNfmuBXc&feature=related

The Volvo electric hybird, flex-fuled genset http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJTsHcZMFQ&feature=related

Electric car beats Ferrari ? a real kick-ass car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGeQby7Jnw&NR=1

Tzero car powered by laptop 7000 laptop batteries beats 500 hp Dodge Viper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGeQby7Jnw&NR=1

Zero emission electric motorcycle drag race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3LZUPGo7JM&feature=related

RAV4-EV Secrets: Plugs into solar, instant Volt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peW8kl-jpHc&feature=related

Never aired GM commercial on EVA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKG5bVeCDs&feature=related

EVS23: GM barely two years after killing ev1-Tape 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rauG9YWmmg&feature=related

wktec crush electric car ev1 Story of GM crushing the EV-1s Listen to the lies told by a GM representative http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEIJrdoDmyw&feature=related

SERIES:

Who Killed the Electric Car
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA2u_KbCs6A&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oyOJzvhZFo&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQkU24hUC44&feature=related
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_jrdT5klQ&feature=related
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMJ9U3TMg4&feature=related
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0JAW20HUOc&feature=related
Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsrbp_k7MM&feature=related
Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbvLL5ANHc OPEC dropped the price of oil to keep the oil junkies hooked up. OPEC succeeded in suppressing the electric car.
Part 9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3jKZVEDIY
Part 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICkQzoO_r5A&feature=related

Where are we in the Green Revolution with Charlie Rose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ngECk1FQk&feature=related

Stimulus? Charlie rose interviews Paul Krugman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckyUhjjJQA&feature=channel

Solution

Suppose the proposed merger between GM and Chrysler goes forward. Thousands of jobs and many plants will close. Towns and cities which supported the Chryler labor force will encounter deep misery. GM will apply to the Feds for say, 120 billion so they can pay extended benefits to ?buy-out? union contract employees. GMAC will seek additional billions for this corporate welfare. Is this what we want? Not only NO but HELL NO.

There is a perfectly sensible alternative which will not cost the Feds any net loss and probably a profit. Here it is:
Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to purchase the controlling interest in Chrysler. Usually a five to ten percent interest is sufficient to control a NYSE listed company.
Congress authorizes the U. S. Treasury to change the name to Chrysler Electric Auto company and loan CEAC up to 100 billion to retool as a manufacturer of both pure plug-in and plug-in hybrid vehicles from small, single passenger micro-cars to tractors for 18 wheelers.
This retooling includes the manufacture of kits which can be sold to folks who will use the kits to convert their Chrysler vehicle to a either a plug-in or a hybrid plug-in.
The loan would also be used to purchase a license for the Volvo all-wheel drive, electric wheel technology.
The loan would also include money with which to purchase licenses or develop patents for lithium-ion batteries.
Congress would specifically empower the Department of Justice to bring an eminent domain action against the owners (Chevron) of the battery patent holder of the battery developed by Stanford R. Osviskinsy.
The loans would also be extended to Chrysler dealerships to add to their service departments, bays and equipment to service the EV's.
The loan would also empower Chrysler to use some of the proceeds to buy-back older vehicles, convert them with the kits to EV vehicles and then resell them.
An independent loan program would be enabled so that buyers could obtain low cost loans directly from an agency of the federal government for a loan with which to buy a new or reconditioned EV or a conversion kit.
These loans would all bear interest and be secured by liens on suitable assets of the borrowers. This way the U.S. Taxpayer suffers no loss, the Chrysler plants keep running, the town survive and the workers keep their jobs. Chrysler would also run a retraining school for their workers.
Congress would prohibit GM, its officers and suppliers from owning any of the Chrysler shares.

The Department of Energy should be in charge of the progam in consultation with EPA, Labor, Commerce and Transportation. Public hearings should be mandated on proposed regulations to implement the DOE regulations for the plan and all major contracts.

Jim Miller
jimmmiller5417@yahoo.com
October 29, 2008

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Closing the dams, reduces production of green energy. Where in the AIP does it provide for replacement of the "lost" green energy and who pays for the capital costs to replace the green energy and when?
Jim Miller

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