Automotive Independence for Massachusetts!

I think we in Massachusetts should stop importing automobiles from the Midwest. We send billions of our hard-earned dollars to rust belt states when we need those jobs here at home. What we need is automotive independence! Coyote makes the case;

I wrote about Michigan governor Granholm’s taxpayer-funded initiative to make Michigan energy independent of, uh, Kentucky

Governor Granholm and Gov. James Doyle of Wisconsin seem to be tormented by the fact that the Midwest industrial engine imports much of its energy needs from coal states in the east and west. “Doyle has estimated that $226 billion leaves the region each year in energy costs that could be saved with alternative-energy installations and support jobs here,” reported the Detroit Free Press.

I pointed out the absurdity of drawing every smaller circles on maps and claiming that wealth depended on that circle being self-sufficient.

But the pithy comeback would have been to ask how Ms. Granholm would react if, say, the the governors of California or Texas announced that were upset that billions of dollars leave their state every year to buy cars and that they were suggesting taxpayer-funded initiatives to free themselves of dependence on Rust Belt states for their transportation.


http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/10/i-hate-it-when-i-think-of-that-withering-comeback-a-few-hours-later.html