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It begs the question 'why do these people still have this puppet in the top job,' when George W just vetoed a bill that both sides of the house of representatives were united on, to protect their ten million most vulnerable children, with a health plan that the state would administer? This prick has everyone under his thumb? You do the math. That's enough on that subject; I'd like to write a positive article on something out of the USA, but can't find the germ of a kind word; why is that? I love the technology they're fostering there; my only magazine subscription is to Technology Review, from MIT, but what those beancounting suits will squeeze and deform those technologies into, has me sneering and shaking my head. A friend of my partner's now lives in the USA and she blithely describes the place as the 'land of plenty', without any notion, I'm sure, that the cost of that is enormous, and unsustainable, and where and when will people arrive at an awareness that a radius of two metres is not enough to be concerned with? I look at CNN's website and I find their gestures to the environment pathetic. But I also see Google researching a fleet of 'plug-in' hybrid motor vehicles, $11,000,000 for 100 vehicles,(that's $110,000 per vehicle.......) and I think I could run a vehicle on mosquito farts for less... and remember these are PETROL vehicles, just with bigger battery packs in them, AND THEY ARE NOT A SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM. (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will convert their state's hybrid fleet to bigger plug-in batteries - $10,000,000 for 500 vehicles - that's $20,000 per car, AND THAT AIN'T A SOLUTION EITHER.) But someone will be feeling way better about something with all those battery sales, and CRASHES will be so much more spectacular with all those extra chemicals to burn with the petrol these liabilities STILL run on......  I have only twice in my life been close to a steam car; I don't remember the analysis of the carbon footprint, but one of them had a single piston motor of 2.25 inches bore and the same stroke, and it could spin the wheels of the old Ford it was in, to one helluva speed, and later powered a bus, and the other was the Gvang, the Australian supercar, fast as a Ferrari, that disappeared to anonymity forever after repeated arson attacks on the constructor's garage..... so, dear readers, let me assure you that little changes, the cars are still being fabricated by the motor trade, which is still staffed by the same sorts of people that it always has been stuck with, and nothing is going to change till you stop patronising these dinosaurs. Nuff Said