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Thomas Friedman strikes again.  He wrote a fantastic op-ed in NYT, as he tends to do, about a possible future for the auto industry.  Forward thinkers unite.  (Even Huffington is picking it up, that’s how awesome he is.)

“…someone in the mobility business in Denmark and Tel Aviv is already developing a real-world alternative to Detroit’s business model.”

Someone was bound to do it.

Check out Better Place, from Palo Alto, California, they’re building an electric car network and it’s gonna happen in Hawaii first.  (I already wrote about how amazing Hawaii is looking about now with Gov Lingle’s green energy collective negotiating strategy for change…)

All I have to say to all the depressed, scared, oh woah is me Midwesterners- stop freaking out and get involved.  Change gonna come.  We all hope for sooner rather than later.  If you don’t have the Vision to see, talk to someone who does.  We’ll bat away all of your excuses and nay saying.  (I practiced over Thanksgiving, I’m really good at it.)  There are better ways of doing everything and while you might be too old to switch gears, we have a whole energized  movement of younger, capable individuals who are ready and willing to collectively step to the plate and figure all this crap out.  The best thing you can do, Bush et all, is get out of our way and let us get to work.  It’ll happen sooner and more quickly thank you think.

Don’t bail out the dinosaurs.  Give 34 great ideas a billion dollars each.  Let America decide.