Flintstones Economy or Jetsons Economy?

by Richard B. Simon

Remember the old argument that the kind of fuel economy increases enacted by Obama and the Democratic-led Congress would COST Detroit jobs?

Turns out, the opposite is true. Ford plans to hire new workers to compete with GM and Tesla (not to mention Toyota and Nissan) by building low emissions, high-mileage vehicles. 

This is the stimulus, the automakers bailout, and the Dems' energy policies at work, moving the country on to the next thing, after decades of inaction that sunk the automakers when gas prices crept above $4.50.

Tell me again why people are considering giving power back to the GOP ... so we can go back to building cars that get fewer miles from a $5 gallon of gas than a 1915 Model T?

Back to spending trillions of taxpayer dollars on oil wars to make sure that Exxon and Chevron and Koch Industries have easy access to the raw material they sell back to us at the highest profits in the history of money?

A GOP Congress will put the brakes on all the progress the country has made toward the coming green energy economy. They've promised as much. 

Likewise GOP-Corporate Gubernatorial and Senatorial contenders Meg Whitman (R-eBay) and Carly Fiorina (R-HewlittPackard), who have promised to suspend or kill all progress toward a new energy economy, in order to maintain the status quo of low-paying jobs fueled by dirty energy ... and trillions in taxpayer liability from damage caused by global warming. Whitman sees Texas -- the most polluted state in the union -- as a model for what California might some day become.

The Chamber of Commerce's Communist Chinese sugar daddies must be pleased with their investment in the future of the Republican Party -- especially "Speaker Boehner" (Seriously. Watch this.)

Likewise the multinational member-corporations of the American Petroleum Institute, who are certainly bankrolling the "shadow GOP" that is dumping tens of millions of secret dollars into this midterm election.

Because they'll drag the U.S. back to into the stone age -- while China blasts forward into the space age.



(Top image: Shanghai today. Below: Detroit in 2009.