Failed Auto Bailout. New Business Model. Arctic Warming

Rant time!

There are some articles that I have read over the past few days that have been rolling around in my head and have twisted themselves together.

It started with the whole auto bail-out.  Honestly, I don’t want that many Americans to lose their jobs but the companies they work for that need assistance have no hope.  They are selling cars that the majority of Americans don’t want.  I own a toyota and my next car, is going to be a toyota.  A lot of people I know feel that way toward toyota and honda and other foreign car companies.  Why?  Fuel efficiency ?  Innovation.  Alternative fuel efficient cars.  Foreign car companies are thinking ahead.  That is when I came across Thomas Friendman’s article “While Detroit Slept“.  If we were to do the auto bailout he stated:

“our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.”

That’s when it hit me.  These companies need a plan to be able to receive aid, but I bet none of them included looking into more fuel efficient cars.  Or figuring out a better business model for the American auto industry.  Click on the link above to read about the Better Place electric car charging system that Friedman talks about.  Now there is an idea.

Pouring money into the auto industry would fail.  It would do no good because they would just keep doing things the exact same way they have been causing taxpayers dollars to be flushed down the toilet.  So I was happy when I read the article “Senate Abandons Automaker Bailout Bid” the other day.  I mean I feel bad for all those losing their jobs but taxpayers should not be used to keep a company afloat for another couple of months until they fail again.

But after this article I started to think about how I wish we could give them money only to be used to create fuel efficient cars.  Then I read “Arctic warming ‘points to ice-free summers’“.   And I thought, well great.  Global warming and we can’t get our American auto companies to even think ahead to creating environmentally safe cars. “The Arctic had been predicted to see ice-free summers by 2070, but many scientists are now predicting it could happen within the next 20 years, according to the newspaper.”  This is where I wish that we could bailout the American companies so long as they make better cars.  Electric, Solar, Wind, Hydrogen . . . whatever.  Anything.  We can do better.  We need to.  We need something better than we have now.

Don’t let the internet win!

So I was thinking the other day about how I am always on the internet. How it has become the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. Check my facebook, both e-mails, edopter, schedule at work and the weather. I’m whipped and not afraid to say it. The internet has me wrapped around it’s little digital finger and I will kindly fetch it it’s slippers every night and make it breakfast in the morning.

So when I came across this article, Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?, it made me realize just how addicted other are too. Just read this:

“According to the study, 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks rather than give up access to their precious Internet for the same period. “

WOW!! Also:

“The survey revealed that 65 percent of adults feel they cannot live without Internet access, and even more — 71 percent — responded that it is important or very important to have Internet-enabled devices, such as laptops, netbooks and mobile Internet devices that can provide them with real-time updates on important issues including the state of the economy.”

So I think we should form a support group. We can start off easy, knock off one hour of internet access a day till we are only down to 5 from 24. Sound good? It doesn’t help that when I am at work I am in front of a computer. My internship involves internet marketing and being a student requires me to constantly be on my computer. I don’t think there is hope for me but you can still be saved. Go outside. Read a book. Have sex; don’t give it up for the internet. Don’t let the internet win. If I could, I would be in a relationship with my boyfriend on facebook and an open relationship with the internet as well, but I don’t have that option. Cyberspace doesn’t understand our relationship. It’s not natural, nor organic.

So save yourself. Please. Step away from the screen.

*tears*

sex or internet