Helping the Car Industry in 3 lessons.

The Big Three Automakers are in trouble and want taxpayer help. We've heard this song before from industry. How do they get themselves into this mess? Could it be because the unions are so all powerful and greedy, the poor managers have no choice but to make cars no one wants? Could it be something else?

Clearly something needs to be done. Pigworld has the answers. If the auto industry wants money, here's the Three things they need to do first:

1) The CEOs and the board of directors must resign at once, receiving zero compensation for bungling and mismanagement. They will be replaced with engineers and designers, that is, people more interested in actually making a car, instead of personal fortune. The actual running of the business will be held in a trusteeship until the industry is back on its feet again.

2) The automakers will now be making cars that actually make sense given the energy problems facing the country and the world. Most cars are built more powerful than they need to be. Traffic problems already reduce the speed of cars to crawl, so why is the engine able to (in theory) reach 120mph? There is absolutely nowhere in the country where driving 120 mph is legal. Ergo, cars don't need that big massive engine. Cars can be lighter, slower, and designed for their most common use: short trips to the grocery store. As such, electric cars not only make more sense, they are ideal. There are design flaws within them that need to be over come. For ambulances, buses, trucks and light trucks the use of hydrogen peroxide fuel becomes a viable solution. (Hydrogen peroxide engines have been in existence since the 1930s. Odd hardly anyone ever mentions them). The idea is ween ourselves off gasoline completely as fast as possible. This in turn will create more jobs as more ideas and possiblities come to light.

3) The interstate highway system was built with taxpayer money to help the auto industry. It can now be used to start setting up bullet train connections to cities. The use of the auto factories to make cars can easily be converted to making more public transit. Highways will be used mostly by trucks hauling goods. People will have to get used to taking the train, but there is no reason train travel must be horrible. Comfort and speed will the hallmarks of the bullet trains. The poorly run airline industry will also aid the the creation of the bullet trains.

And with those three things in place, Detroit can have money! The only people losing their jobs are the top level fatheads, everyone else is fine.

Of course, this also means a rethinking of the car for the American people. The concept of going from Zero to Sixty is laughable anyway. Zoom Zoom is childish, and should be treated as such. Your car is not a sex symbol, a measure of manhood or luxury on wheels. It's a car. It's for hauling groceries, going to the school play, giving grandma a lift. It's not a "way of life."
That may be a harder sell than the reworking the industy, but people need to spend more time out of their cars. Public transit systems, bullet trains, and other modes of transport will have to shown as better than cars on an individual basis as well as an economic and environmental benefit. Biking to work should be common. If this means suburbs will suffer and fade away, so be it. Living together, working together, and being together is what democracy is all about.

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