Posts Tagged ‘USA’
The end of arrogance?
Fascinating article from Germany, it’s a long read, but the outlook echoes what’s happening on the street. The banking crisis is upending American dominance of the financial markets and world politics. The industrialized countries are sliding into recession, the era of turbo-capitalism is coming to an end and US military might is ebbing. We’re drifting [...]
Food for thought, September 25
First, this was great: “My Car is More Important Than My Body” for a LOT of people, their cars are their livelihoods. It gets them to work, to school, to the store, and it hauls around other people and things. It get them from point A, to point B and C and D and back [...]
Reasons 1, 2 and 3 why we need transit!
This article in the LA Times got me thinking… I generally enjoy reading about transportation related issues, it’s fun seeing all the different perspectives, people who have ‘evidence’ that transit saves money smash their heads against people who have ‘evidence’ that it costs money. Everything costs money, get over it. All transportation is subsidized, congratulations. [...]
Falling behind
Great column on energy efficiency in other parts of the world today, courtesy Thomas Friedman. Here is the key quote: Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way [...]