05-13-2009, 10:30 AM
Actually, I disagree. Hummer is a good example. It's a vehicle only the most consumptive minded people would be enticed to buy under circumstances of 1) cheap fuel 2) cheap credit 3) wages borne by both 4) A society that thought people in need of such prosthetics were cool and some sort of status symbol. This is never coming back, ever. Never. Again, never. We're not in a recession, per se--we're in a structural revaluation of our whole economy. Whatever comes out of that, hard to say. You can count 2005 or anything that looks like it out.
I fear we're hamstrung by a model, now invalid, that presupposes cyclical events. I reject that model. The cycle is broken. We are facing a very new future with different values. It's worth discussing what those values are and what will be workable in that world. I think roads will have little to do with it.
I fear we're hamstrung by a model, now invalid, that presupposes cyclical events. I reject that model. The cycle is broken. We are facing a very new future with different values. It's worth discussing what those values are and what will be workable in that world. I think roads will have little to do with it.