I am against "all" projects run by the government. Especially when one is decided by a single person. The government should stick to the original concepts of our Constitution: defense, foreign affairs and a few other things and let states and business take care of the rest.
Your ideas have merit but I don't want the govt to do it. Even if the ideas are totally sound, they always, always deteriorate into boondoggles. The bigger they are the bigger the boondoggle. Just look at NASA. It started out OK but has devolved into the management becoming entrenched, no new ideas and huge wastes of money. Its goal now is to keep its managers employed not to do space exploration. The Tennessee Valley Authority is now so graft ridden and involved in every aspect of people's lives that electricity costs between 5 and 10 times what everyone else is paying. They control water rights, land rights and voting rights in several states. I googled it and was astounded by how bad it is. Like a cancer. Ethanol is another boondoggle. It is bad in every sense of the word. Plenty of facts on the Internet about its cost. In fact there is an ethanol plant shutting down last week because its expenses are getting out of hand. If you want algae, then let an entrepreneur do it. In fact there are a few firms experimenting with it now. I suspect there may be some govt funding behind the scenes which is wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Russell" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Obama wasted our money > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What right has anyone have to spend someone else's money? The government >> must not be an investment banker especially when there are incompetent >> bankers running the show. You can bet your boots that real investment >> bankers are not that careless; they have their own money at risk. > --------------------- > > That is exactly what the government does, spend "their" money. > > Presidents have done great things with respect to technology. > > <http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/John_F_Kennedy/3.htm> > > In the Solyndra case it was a bust. Are you against the idea of the > leader of the nation pushing forward, or only when you like the idea? > > I feel that pushing technology into new areas is needed. Turning a > blind eye to the present is not a good thing until that new tech is > sound. > > Algae driven oils sounds great. Grow your own carbon sludge that can > be skimmed off and used is a great idea. Conversion from a gas > powered vehicle to a diesel is probably the next big thing. Stop the > corn based alcohol and instead go to soy and peanut oil components for > diesel. > > Have on board engines only generate electricity for on board > batteries. Add solar array collectors to hoods, roofs and trunks to > add charge while exposed in a parking lot. > > > > -- > Stephen Russell > > 901.246-0159 cell > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/23EB69161D7F4C4DADB36037CF705720@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
