Great Depression of 2016

[hemet dennis]

Yes, but that is what the current fuel taxes are supposed to be doing.

But the current fuel taxes are not keeping up with the cost, so every year we add to the highway fund from the general fund. The general fund has no money left so they borrow more money to fix the roads.

So we agree that the roads need to be fixed.

Do you agree that the debt is to high ?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

But the current fuel taxes are not keeping up with the cost, so every year we add to the highway fund from the general fund. The general fund has no money left so they borrow more money to fix the roads.

So we agree that the roads need to be fixed.

Do you agree that the debt is to high ?

Maybe we should ask the people in Sandy Springs, Georgia how to fix the budget an roads...

http://isil.org/the-town-that-privatized-everything/

 

[rufus]

As an aside issue, there is a movement to power long haul trucks with natural gas which we seem to have plenty. Google "Westport Engines" and "Clean Energy" which is a company supplying natural gas and truck stop services.

Now, back to the tariffs. In the great depression, the Hawley Smoot tariff protected our industry. The factories weren't working, but they were still located in the US.

When world war II broke out, they were there to be utilized. People went back to work.

However, in our current situation, those factories have moved to the far east. We have hollow buildings and empty lots now. We will have to start all over again and retool new factories.

If we start a tariff war, what product does the US produce that would not still be bought?

Our largets export item would be agricultural products. However, this is a false item. The US has since the end of world war II bought grain and other products that it gives in aid through the Food for Peace progam to other nations.

Then those recipient nations sell this agricultural product on their own market and use the income to fund their governments. Governments like Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Egypt are dependent upon this program.

In the years since the inception of the program, those countries have not increased their own production of food supplies to keep pace with their growing population.

I feel that the US taxpayer should not have to support those nations that really don't like us. We need to end that program and make gasahol with that grain.

Those people need to plant more wheat and less opium poppies.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

As an aside issue, there is a movement to power long haul trucks with natural gas which we seem to have plenty. Google "Westport Engines" and "Clean Energy" which is a company supplying natural gas and truck stop services.

I have yet to see any sign of that outside of big cities in California.

Those people need to plant more wheat and less opium poppies.

You know that is asking to much... The CIA needs their cash flow..

 

[hemet dennis]

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I'm all for it.

 

[hemet dennis]

Quote: LNG is becoming more and more available.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/04/travelcenters_firms_up_shell_d.html

It's also starting to be used to power trains.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

LNG is becoming more and more available.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/04/travelcenters_firms_up_shell_d.html

It's also starting to be used to power trains.

They are going to have to add 10 to 20 times that many stations before people will start investing in trucks that burn it.

 

[hemet dennis]

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And they will. No one has said the change would be overnight.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Well my guess is we are talking 10 to 20 years if ever. I expect more out of the electric battery pack cars.

 

[caychris]

limite mobility

Well my guess is we are talking 10 to 20 years if ever. I expect more out of the electric battery pack cars.

I wonder what happened to fuel cell tech

It is not in the companies interest to make a car with huge range on cheep fuel.

They are already talking tax/mile schemes to "raise revenue" when all they will do is limit mobility. Why do you think they will push public transit systems and low range electric vehicles? All in order to control the populace. Tax/mile is just another way to control the populace. Why do you need to fix a crumbling infrastructure if no one is going to use it.

There are no easy answers to the mess that we are in. The only thing you can do is learn to survive without them and to hopefully get those around you to do the same as a buffer zone from the masses who will not take responsibility for themselves.