My Grandest Dream
Imagine trips to and from work, trips to the grocery store, going to visit friends and family, and the occasional drive just because you feel like it and not feeling guilty because the vehicle you're driving gets over 200 miles per gallon on regular gasoline. Now imagine buying this vehicle for less than $2,000.oo while never having to pay auto insurance, automobile property taxes, inspection fees, license fees or parking fees.
But wait, that's not all.
Imagine never having to pay a mechanic again. Imagine reducing the pollution of the air, water and land and saving the Earth for generations to come. Imagine a vehicle designed so that future upgrades can be installed or retrofitted at little or no cost to the consumer and a vehicle whose value never drops and quite possibly increases as it gets older.
But wait, it gets even better.
Now imagine if that vehicle were open source and American made in small, quiet factories in neighborhoods all over America so that when competitors improve their products your vehicle can also be upgraded no matter which neighborhood factory made it. Again, at little or no cost to you. Imagine that same vehicle being easily converted to electric, solar or any of the new super fuels of the future without having to spend a fortune in what looks to be difficult times ahead. Imagine that vehicle as a plug-in hybrid from day one.
Can it get any better? Yes it can.
Let's imagine the makers of these vehicles-- the people who work and sweat in the factories-- as people who were once poor and/or homeless but now living in green, low cost, energy efficient homes built within walking distance of these small American factories never having to worry about being poor and homeless again. Now imagine these workers and you the customer as the owners and partners in this successful manufacturing business that brings Americans back their jobs and saves our economy.
That's my dream and I've figured out how to make it work. The technology is here now-- nothing new needs be designed but when something new is designed it can be incorporated into the reality. It's not complicated and it's not beyond reach. It's a dream I've kept and studied for over 25 years-- now all I need are true green believers to make it happen. Are you true green and truly ready for the future?
Billy
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Like you wouldn't believe. *eyes the full recycling bin*
Ali,
It's funny in a way. I was raised by very conservative parents who grew up in the Great Depression and didn't throw anything away until there was no way it could be used for something else. To them, conservation and green living were core conservative values. Raising a garden was a way of life and necessary because we were (and still are) poor.
When I first started driving and gas was .25 per gallon wasting gas was considered by my parents to be wrong. We walked to school and to the store even though Daddy owned a car. (The car was one of the things that kept up poor.)
Our home has had solar hot water for over 25 years saving us more than $40 a month based on the electric bill 25 years ago. We didn't install it because it was green, we installed it because it worked.
My parents were farmers and sharecroppers-- green was the way I was raised because it was the only way they knew how to survive.