Practical problem solving political action on the local level sells itself.  There is where the poltical base lives.

If  local green energy groups helps people convert to solar, wind, and biofuel energy and cut energy bills at the same time, that trumps lofty political principles.

If a political party supports government policy to make a more friendly financial environment for this to happen, votes will surely follow.

And small businesses building and installing the systems with equipment supplied by a revived american manufacturing base will result.  Remember the 90s?  The internet boom funded a pay down of the national debt.

But that boom went bust, only so many people needed the latest greatest internet technology.

This green energy boom is huge, replacing all that ever more expensive oil and natural gas.  It is more than a bubble.  It's a huge wave of prosperity, earth friendly prosperity.

Economic growth from biulding quality rather than consumption and quantity.  Energy conservation and human productivity driving this wave.  Let it roll.

Traffic needs to be routed so that people are not left stranded as freeways become 100 mile long parking lots.

And no more bushco inc. contractors to study the problem, at huge cost to taxpayers and with zero results.  Universities already funded by tax dollars can do the necessary computer modeling based directly on the traffic situation encountered in these recent botched evacuations.

We the people need to demand that our government solves problems, instead of throwing money at crony corporations like bushco inc. has.

By adjusting traffic patterns out onto side roads around stalled vehicles the millions that would need to evacuate our biggest metro areas like NYC would at least have some chance of survival.

In a nuclear fuel rod storage pool disaster, for instance, an area hundreds of miles in diameter downwind from the accident would need to be evacuated very quickly.

There are 68 of these facilities located all around the US, each of which could release 8 to 17 times the radiation of Chernobyl.  Any loss of water in these open pools would cause the flammable zirconium metal in the rods to burn and the residual radiation to spread on the wind.

vacation accomplished!
(reality not allowed)

afterwards, the headlines despaired:
"new orleans engulfed by despair & lawlessness"

conveniently forgotten:
the jim crow law of cause & effect
(blacks "loot" but whites "find")

conveniently forgotten: despair
& lawlessness
 dwelt deep within the delta
long before katrina

battered louisiana
long before shattered levees
 sank the big easy

long before the secretary of state's
 shoe-shopping spree
(poverty not permitted)

shoot to kill is a sugarcoated sleeping pill
to help compassionate conservatives
 rest easier at night

& blaming the victims is fortified balloon bread
 that builds character
 & "makes america stronger for it"

© j7

Great job seven!!!!  Thanks!!  Classes up my blog. 

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=11&content=4353

 On February 15, 2005, Judge Michael Chertoff was sworn in as the second Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff formerly served as United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

 Before joining the Bush Administration, Chertoff was a Partner in the law firm of Latham & Watkins. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Special Counsel for the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee.

The neorat Chertoff's emergency managment experience.

Let's see, brownie was a disbarred horse judge.  That criminally negligent appointment by the chimp in chief caused how many deaths?  Thousands?

Meanwhile nursing home operators who allegedly caused 34 deaths are now charged with criminal negligence.

When will bushco (o)inc be charged?

How many deaths will Chertoff the whiterwater prosecutor cause meanwhile? 

Isn't homeland security and emergency management important enough to appoint experts?  Chertoff and brownie, rummi, wolfi...and on and on should be ambassadors or something, not in key life or death positions.

Recall Bush for criminally negligent crony appointments.  The buck stops at duuuhbya.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/9/11/124448/953#4

So if New Orleans is ready for a category 5 next time, what if a category 6 shows up?  

With ever increasing weather volatility due to the greenhouse gas effect, in this case a warmer gulf water temperature than normal, disaster planning is not enough.

Reversal of global climate change won't help for a few decades either, even if a crash program were instituted tomorow.  We have to live (and many will die) with this situation.

Storm resistant homes with decentralized power systems built farther back from coastlines is the only longer term solution.  Give the coasts and wetlands back to mother nature.  Thousands of miles of great coastal wilderness and camping areas will result.

Camp out at the beach on vacation instead of building fancy homes.  It's a wonderful way to get in touch with nature and save energy and development.

Less homes built, less energy used, less global climate change greenhouse gases.

Let's talk peak climate change weather volatility for awhile along with peak oil.  The costs from both are economy shattering!

Sooner or later the rest of US will be unable to pay to rebuild the coastal areas ravaged by ever increasingly intense storms.  Federal zoning needs to be instituted.  No rebuilding in coastal flood plains.

Very interesting estimate of GDP loss from Katrina by FAUX news anchors this morn.

Faux talkin' head 1:  " The economic losses from Katrina are estimated to be .05 % of GDP."

Faux talkin' head 2:  "That's a very small amount..."

Faux talkin' head 1:  "...that's more than the loss from 911."

The actual figure quoted in the mass delusional media?  A mere 10 times that figure!?!  Yep.  

The ratings agency (Standard and Poors) predicted Katrina would shave 0.5 per cent off the U.S. real gross domestic product in the third quarter, a significant drop from the 3.3 per cent annual growth recorded in the second quarter.

Whoops, reading are hard.  Poor talkin' heads.

Interview after interview at the scene feature FAUX news reporters cutting off Katrina victims who mention the duuuhbyaist regime in any hegative light with respect to the situation in New Orleans.

5 days with no food or water brought in by relief officialdome, citizens forced to loot to get even water!  In 95+ degree heat!  Armed thugs allowed to rule the city streets and designated shelter areas.  Shooting, raping, beating at will.

Kind of reminds one of the Iraqi invasiion aftermath?

Why weren't police and national guard on site the last few days to provide food and water and restore public safety?

When residents interviewed on FAUX news express any of these frustrations and try to relate them to the buck stopping at the president's locale?  The "reporter" cuts them off! 

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/8/31/124732/191#1

Good one Umbra!

But seriously, imagine this of you will?

A fossil fuel powerplant emitting all it's air pollution into algae growing solar cogeneration facilities with collectors mounted on the powerplant buildings and smokestacks.

The CO2, mercury, and NOx are removed from the water by the algae.  The algae, with solar energy added, is turned into biofuel, methane for instance, and the mercury is filtered out of the methane digestor.

The methane (poot)is then burned in the powerplant, saving coal combustion, and the CO2 from the methane combustion is sent back through the solar cogeneration facility to make more biofuel.  

The CO2 becomes a part of a closed loop.  And sequestration is acomplished, eureka!  Maybe those green tags could fund some of this activity?

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/8/31/95831/5608#6

So far no one has pointed this out.  The fact that moving and rebuilding whole cities like New Orleans will cost unimaginable amounts of money, but also the lost business may even surpass that!

How much economic growth is curtailed when whole cities are wiped out?  

No jobs, no money earned, no mortgages payed, no stores shopped at, no factories operating... and so forth.

This is why global climate disaster from fossil fuel combustion will cost 100s of trillions in economic growth over the next century.

Is Manhattan, or any other city, prepared for devestation like New Orleans has experienced?  Of course not!  Even if it were possible to plan for it somehow, would a totally corrupt bottomline, corporatist serving, lobbyist run system like the US has become do that?

Not on your, and millions of your fellow citizens lives.  Just as there is no homeland security, it was a sham to loot the federal treasury,there are not even any  substantial  evacuation plans, much less any recovery plans.

And with completely unregulated insider trading and market manipulation run rampant could gas hit 5 dollars tomorow or next week?  Yep.