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In a way, the ideas in here echo Fred Wilson and Howard Lindzon, who have said that we'd be better served by a bust-up not a bail-out of the automobile industry. Not a bust-up in the sense of 'destroy them,' but rather break them up into smaller pieces, make them perform better and meet customer needs. Find niches, instead of hogging the field. "You can have any color you want as long as it's black." That model doesn't hold anymore.

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Richard Florida makes the argument that Fordism -- or Fordist thinking -- lies behind some of our economic woes at present, and that we have to get past that paradigm. I left a comment re. this article ( http://www.wsoctv.com/automotive/17945476/detail.html#- ), "Falling Gas Prices Jump-Start GM SUV Sales; Automaker Puts Texas Plant On Overtime Amid Other Closures," published a week ago (11/10/08). The automobile industry shouldn't be bailed out without significant guarantees from the industry that it will embrace environmentally progressive goals.

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Short video clip produced by CEOs for Cities, which asks, "How much is it worth, to live two miles closer to work?" The answer(s) is (are) astonishing, when you take those 2 miles and make them cumulative, for the whole US. That said, imagine what it does mean, then, if we build cities that are walkable, that engage people in public transit, that shave those 2miles off people's commutes/ daily drives?

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