tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post900670214279940763..comments2024-03-29T00:30:39.262-05:00Comments on real economics: Well, I was wrong about $100 trillion . . .Jonathan Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-29941698727586266882015-12-17T09:32:47.309-06:002015-12-17T09:32:47.309-06:00You got that right!You got that right!Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-13514978469930882482015-12-17T09:32:07.359-06:002015-12-17T09:32:07.359-06:00Yes indeed. I am pretty certain we do not need to...Yes indeed. I am pretty certain we do not need to replace all 200+million personal vehicles with an electric equivalent. But I am certain that we must retire the IC ones.<br /><br />And I am pretty certain that is what Tony meant as well because he is a big train guy who would be thrilled if half the car trips were replaced by light rail etc.<br /><br />As for SANE. Count me in. PRT was the big subject when I was studying city planning in the 1970s. Many of the patents had been assigned to my university. But it never flew so I see SANE is a much-improved version of the same idea. Bravo!Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-36701161682329729172015-12-15T12:41:03.325-06:002015-12-15T12:41:03.325-06:00> We’re going to replace every vehicle with an ...> We’re going to replace every vehicle with an internal combustion engine.<br /><br />With any luck, we will _not_ need to replace _every_ vehicle. For urban mobility, we only need one vehicle for every 20-50 people. Instead of leaving our cars warehoused all day in parking lots and structures, we will be sharing vehicles going all the time, with S.A.N.E. mobility: S=Solar, A=Automated, N=Nonstop (origin to destination), E=Elevated. <br /><br />Join the solarevolution! www.solarevolution.com/.Ron Swensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437944688837628074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-40821189399982492342015-12-14T06:46:28.730-06:002015-12-14T06:46:28.730-06:00The left gave up it's political power when it ...The left gave up it's political power when it decided finance was beneath them and chose to ignore it.paulmelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960273073838817902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-8142972971993156682015-12-13T23:27:59.486-06:002015-12-13T23:27:59.486-06:00Unfortunately, not enough people truly understand ...Unfortunately, not enough people truly understand finance, never mind an economy.<br /><br />I went searching for some numbers once because the "kitchen table" discussion seemed to be ending with only cutting as a solution. Somehow, and I blame the dems/progressives/liberal (of which I consider myself) for letting the argument end there. The idea of leveraging one's equity for a better tomorrow just never gets brought up. Yet people borrow all the time for good reason. There is not a business alive that does not leverage it's equity.<br /><br />Thus, the question is: How much is the US worth? I found 2 answers. Straight up, total of everything...about $186 trillion dollars. If, using an accounting that takes in earning potential...$235 trillion. When I point out to people that our debt is about $14 to $16 trillion they start to see things more clearly. I ask, what would a bank do if you went in with a plan to earn more money and only had used about 6.5 to 8.7% of your equity and wanted to borrow some money?<br /><br />People really have no clue just how little we are doing with the wealth we have. I tell them we should leverage up to at least 25% of our equity now. Only, we have to make sure we spend it on stuff that will actually make living on this planet easier and healthier.<br /><br />I also let them know that in todays dollars we spent about $4 trillion way back when developing our rail system that we then promptly let go to hell. What a waste of money.<br /><br />I laughed when I read about the $100 billion. Daniel Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991608905195883037noreply@blogger.com