The fact that Democratic legislators have proposed to destroy Connecticut's public colleges and universities
is a
sad commentary
about just how little they care
about Connecticut's middle income and poorer residents and how little they understand
about meeting the future needs of Connecticut's
economy.
A lot of hay has
been made recently
about how
sad it
is that 30 years after cars like the Excel, we've only achieved moderate increases in fuel
economy, but emissions have decreased dramatically.
I
am not yet in my 40's but
was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there
were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than
being a disposable society... there have always
been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out
about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new
economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it
is so damn
sad it took a war to make people «wake up»
about alternative fuels and how exciting the options
are.