An Example Of The Failure Of Intuition

After Dwight Eisenhower initiated the interstate highway system in the USA in the 1950s, there has been a steady effort to expand and "improve" it. In recent years, this has included adding highway lanes to "reduce" traffic problems. Click on the link below for a podcast that will help you understand the failure of this thinking in its stated goals and how other developed nations have done a better job in the planning of people movement in urban areas:

Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?

The "Gilded Age" Is Alive And Well

"John Oliver discusses freight trains and railroads, how they’ve put profits over safety, and, crucially, what shows he watched as a child that explain…everything. "

Click on the link below for a clear example of corporate behavior that should have ended at the end of the Gilded Age. We need another Mark Twain, or another Charles Dickens, to enlighten voters and to push politicians toward a truly REGULATED capitalism:

An Update On Electric Vehicles

"Electric cars are still a relatively new industry, and like all new industries, it's had its growing pains. We have to do everything badly before we can learn to do it well, so many of the anti-EV arguments claimed by the electric car hater crowd have had a grain of truth to them. But over time, the reality of electric cars has progressed substantially, while the arguments against them have remained largely stagnant and have become obsolete. A particularly good place to find them is on Facebook, usually when any automotive magazine posts an article about an electric car. The comment threads stretch into the hundreds, and each of them is like a bingo card of obsolete anti-EV arguments that are 15 years out of date. Today we're going to take a deep dive into the true answers to some of the most common objections."

Click on the link below for the truth about the future of vehicles:

What They Are Saying About Electric Cars NOW