{"id":146,"date":"2011-10-07T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-10-07T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:59:00","slug":"do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;Do as I say, not as I do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8230;<strong><em>scene opens as our hero steps up and mounts the soapbox podium..wait for it&#8230;and&#8230; ACTION!<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;Concerned Elected Officials&#8221; in their drive to provide for the good of their &#8220;Flocks&#8221;(<em>A.K.A<\/em> us), since we can&#8217;t make good\u00a0decisions, inform us through speeches and requests for legislation that we should be more frugal with our use of energy ie: fossil fuels. They raise the tax on gas, make laws for the auto\u00a0manufacturers on MPG and emissions (which in turn raises the price of vehicle&#8217;s MSRP). In the race to make these goals, auto companies are trying all sorts of &#8220;Smart&#8221; (not really) ideas. The electric cars sound like a real promising solution, except for the fact that the cost and\u00a0environmental impact of producing the batteries these cars use, offset any gains to the carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that if &#8220;Our Keepers in Government&#8221; were that concerned, and believed that this was the way to go, would show by example and not by words only. Some suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut the ties that bind them to &#8220;Big Energy&#8221; and the $$$ that sway the decisions.<\/li>\n<li>If its such a good idea, why aren&#8217;t State Capitols and Washington D.C. electric vehicle or urban mass transit only cities? Of course some trucks would be needed for deliveries (although a transfer hub could be set up where goods are brought in by truck then\u00a0transferred\u00a0to smaller vehicles or even a electric underground transport system thereby eliminating the noise, congestion, and pollution of surface.) This type of system is already in use (Disney World, Orlando,Florida).<\/li>\n<li>All the Limos and SUVs used for transporting officials to and from their meetings, changed to Hybrid or electric vehicles.(I think it is absolutely ridiculous that you need a full size town car or SUV to transport 1 official around town)<\/li>\n<li>How about bicycle cabs or even a type of rickshaw. (could be powered by &#8220;community service&#8221; people (maybe not, this might fall into slavery, or cruel and unusual punishment realms).<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating &#8220;Gas stations&#8221; in the capitol cities, and changing them to &#8220;charging stations. This would also prevent tankers (or the possibility of a liquid fuel truck bomb) access to Government centers. Charging sites could also be in parking sites (where during the Reps daily meetings, a freshening charge could be made so vehicles are ready to go at all times.<\/li>\n<li>Why aren&#8217;t the Capitols making more use of alternative power, wind, solar, hydro? These don&#8217;t have to be exclusive sources, but they could augment the current sources, and possible reduce operating costs or even reduce the carbon footprint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I realize that these ideas would need further analysis (cost and\u00a0feasibility). But why aren&#8217;t they at least being looked at?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8230;scene opens as our hero steps up and mounts the soapbox podium..wait for it&#8230;and&#8230; ACTION!&#8230;) Our &#8220;Concerned Elected Officials&#8221; in their drive to provide for the good of their &#8220;Flocks&#8221;(A.K.A us), since we can&#8217;t make good\u00a0decisions, inform us through speeches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unwelcomedcompany.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}