An echo of history - a salute to Obama

The Germans saw their past in the faces of the modern day Janus.
(Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin that attracted 0ver 200,000 audience on 7/24/2008)

Jesse Jackson's Comment on Obama

Jesse Jackson only mentioned Obama "talk down to black people". He did not
mentioned specifically to O8's speech on father's day. Why did O8 spend such
long paragraph to elaborate his father day speech? this sounds .... 此地无
银三百两...
maybe O8 himself also felt that his "how to be a man" lecture is
condescending to the negroes ...

and personally, I think "fucking despite consequences", together with
playing basketball, are two inseparable parts of the American negro "culture
". Attacking this tradition is attacking the black people. Why Obama can
play basketball like a brother but can not accept the fact that brothers
fuck at will and brothers do not want to be fathers?

On Electric Car...

Just like Who killed electric car described, lots of times, the big oil is keen to buy out any promising battery technology and then kill it. By buying out new shoots in battery technology, they claim credits for investing in "new technology" and "alternative energy" and then they nip it in the bud.

On the other hand, Detroit has interests in investing in electric car but they are driven by quarter-economics and they can not cut themselves short by dumping old oil-car or heavily investing in the electric car, which was why GM used such heavy hands to cannibalize his own electric car prototype. If you had ever watched the movie, "Tucker: The Man and His Dream", you can vividly see how Detroit is good at killing new technologies and maintain its profit edge.

Bill Clinton once mentioned, the energy industry is exactly the field that needs more governmental encouragement, because the oil industry is prone to monopoly by nature and the market is not efficient enough in this industry. With government encouragement, once the new technology take roots, while likely killing the old industry, it will sperm a whole lot more business
opportunity... just like that computer and printer killed typewriter industry for good.

高涨的油价

世界原油产出已经peak了，油价上涨是不可避免的，谁在台上都一样，有没有伊战也一
样。现在对美国来说问题的关键是怎样在supply固定，甚至减少的情形下，尽量减少油
价上升的幅度，同时寻找开发新能源。这就是McCain的offshore drilling和鼓励电池
开发，建核电的政策。Obama批评Hillary的gas tax break， McCain的政策是short
term, 他自己也提不出idea来解决问题。