I just heard a phrase tonight, “$700 Billion transfer of funds”.

I didn’t know what that meant, so I Googled, thinking it had to do with the Wall Street bailout. But that’s not what it is. It’s what we spend on imported oil.

So. I thought it was interesting that we spend the same amount on oil as the government is proposing to bail out Big Business. If that happens, and if there is any recoupment, why not use some of it to invest in clean energy (solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc. — not more drilling, not coal, not nuclear), and if we could become energy independent, especially by using free resources, we’d come out even with the money spent on the bailout. If done well, once the technology is in place, there should be no additional cost to consumers. Eventually, like what? in about 2 years after we go green, we’d be out of debt — not only the country, but the energy-consuming public who are hit by high gasoline and heating costs.

OK, so that’s my half-baked idea for saving the economy — and the environment. Who can develop that idea into a workable solution? I’m serious. It’s a $700 billion trade-off. (And if Big Oil’s lobbyists don’t want to lose their market share, they can contribute their portion of the bailout recoupment to developing clean energy. But once in place, no one should profit by it, because no one owns the sun or the wind.)

For example, I was looking at various YouTube videos today about the air car, the Japanese water car, a little bit about solar cars, but mainly about people who are either developing the technologies, or who have found ways to convert their existing cars to run on water or other things. Why not make engine conversion widespread as an intermediate measure to inventing green cars, instead of limiting it to a handful of mechanically-minded guys? That could keep the auto mechanics in business working on all the conventional cars. Why wait for the government to do something?

Even the Pentagon has shown interest in this:

How ironic that he died of food poisoning the day after he signed a contract with the Pentagon. Has anyone investigated that to see if it was truly a natural death? What has the Pentagon done with the technology since then? Why don’t we have water-powered cars yet?

Visit Gas Price Relief for conversion kits.

Japanese Water Car:

How much are we spending on the war on Iraq? If we ended the war, could that savings pay off this socialist bailout? Or, how about the Republicans & Democrats donating their campaign donation money to chip in? They make at least a million or two per fundraiser. All they spend it on are negative ads. I can’t think of a worse waste of money, from those millionaires who claim to understand what the middle class people are going through.

So. Do we have to worry about becoming a socialist country? Or worse? Was democracy and capitalism a bad experiment? Well, we were never a democracy. We’re a republic.

Tags: $700 billion, clean energy, energy independence, Wall Street bailout

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