“As president, I will tap our natural-gas reserves, invest in clean-coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I’ll help our auto companies retool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I’ll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars,” he said.

Can you really tell the difference?

“Clean coal” is a joke.

Ethanol is a carbon-positive subsidy program for Midwestern corporate farmers.

Americans need to be weaned off car dependence, not have their car dependence subsidized and saved from obsolescence by the federal government.

When a sidewalk is being reconstructed, generally they take away a lane of traffic and use those temporary wooden barricades to accommodate pedestrians because they know the people will walk in the roadbed with traffic if they don’t provide that.

It’s like asking drivers to stop, put the car in neutral, and get out and push through one block of a construction zone, then get in and keep driving. You know that if there’s enough room, they’re gonna drive right through. You either accommodate the mode or provide a reasonable detour. You can’t just interrupt a facility right in the middle.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSBNG18419220080829

Understand the context here. Our entire economy has been based on going deeper and deeper into debt so we can keep spending. Now the rest of the world isn’t willing to lend to Americans anymore, because they know we can’t pay. But they will lend to the federal government, on the grounds that the tax code will FORCE future generations to pay.

And the auto companies want future generations to pay for their decision not to produce fuel efficient cars.