These are my Delicious links for January 9th:
- The Obama Plan:Fiasco Potential is High | Gregor.us – Interesting post on the lack of rail investment in Obama’s proposed infrastructure spending. I agree that our nation is woefully deficient in commuter and regional rail solutions and that improved public transportation is the most viable solution for cutting automobile emissions. This economic crisis and Obama’s political mandate together provide a unique opportunity for fundamental change.”The problem the country faces right now is that we already invested in the wrong things. Wrong things have little sustainable payoff. We invested in Houses and Cars, and did so for decades. But houses and cars are really just tools that are supposed to set us up to do the larger work. In the United States the car and the home became economic fetishes. Alot of the country now lives in a home that’s too big, in a town too far from work. Continuing to invest in this structure is crazy, given that oil prices will be sky-high again in the near future.”