[PRCo] Re: Beyond the Motor City ~ Video: Preview | Blueprint America

[Schneider Fred]

About a year ago, perhaps more Dennis, and the rest of you, I  
suggested to a friend of mine that the future held the wealthy moving  
back into the cities and evicting the poor.   The poor would then  
move to the suburbs.   My friend (I would prefer to keep him nameless  
other than to state that he has earned his living as a transportation  
consultant in about six nations over the last 40 years) added the  
punch line:   "And the poor will be breaking up the furniture to feed  
the fireplaces in the suburbs to keep warm."

This is a rather dim outlook but my personal prediction holds that  
the price of motor fuels will go back up to $4.00 or more a gallon  
when this global recession is over.   That might be enough to trigger  
the next recession.   Perhaps after two or three of them in a row, we  
will finally understand that it is us driving the price of oil  
because we are running out.   Maybe then we will do something about  
alternatives.

But if we are looking at five year cycles ... twenty years from now  
many of us on this list will not be here to see if Fred's prediction  
was correct or not.




On Dec 24, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Dennis Fred Cramer wrote:

> Below is a link to an upcoming film that looks like it will serve  
> as an update to the GE film Fred sent a few days ago.
> Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City, a new documentary  
> directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn),  
> examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America's diminished status  
> in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation  
> and progress in America. The film debuts nationally on PBS on  
> February 8 at 10 pm (check local listings).
>
>
> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/beyond-the-motor- 
> city/video-preview/861/
>
>
> DF Cramer
>