Detroit - A "Green Turnaround" plan or Annihilation

[SharonRB]

Please check out Nancy Skinner's diary at Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/20/94317/798/56/664055

As well as her op ed in today Detroit Free Press:
http://www.freep.com/article/20081120/OPINION02/811200370

And sign her petition at http://www.YesWeCanDetroit.com

This needs to be a grassroots movement, working from the bottom up.

[blm]

1. I remember when Bush took office the automakers canned their agreements made with Gore

when he was VP - he negotiated deals on fuel efficiency that were to begin in 2001. Needless to say.....Bush wanted the exact opposite to happen....his pals were the oil industry who WANTED fuel efficiency issues ignored.

[GliderGuider]

2. A truly green future

Doesn't have cars in it. Period. Any future that contains cars of any sort faces inherent ecological limits because of the amount of human activity they enable.

As the Fram Filter guy says, "You can pay me now, or pay me later." This financial collapse has presented us with a golden opportunity to bring ourselves back into alignment with the planet. Let's not blow it through fear and attachment to the past.

Just say no to cars.