Batteries for cars..........

I just heard our president tell us how great it was to spend 800 million dollars in stimulus a year ago because our economy was in dire straights. He said some guy named Chuck from back east bought some new equipment and hired 8 more people to help with the government contract he received due to this recovery act. There wasn't a mention as to TARP signed a year before that, another big expenditure that had already according to these folks in Washington started turning things around. We all know that's neither here nor there, and no matter who signed what gigantic expenditure Bush and Obama, it will all start turning around when housing starts moving again and small businesses can get loans to operate.
But I guess what got me thinking the most was batteries, fuel efficient cars and long lasting batteries that make them go! According to our president we are producing 2% of the worlds large batteries, the type needed to operate these hybrid vehicles. What he was saying is that it is his stimulus spending that has made all this possible, by letting companies built plants to product more of these batteries which would otherwise come from an Asian country. There was also the contention that by next year at this time we would be producing 20% of these batteries for the world. Now I may and usually am all washed up, but it seems to me that like anything else that comes into demand and grows in popularity there are folks out there going to build more and better businesses and products to fill these demands. If we only have a very small percentage of vehicles on the road that require these types of batteries, no body's going to open a business or plant making something we really don't need much of or use. Now on the other hand if you see more and more of these cars being produced, bought, used and on the road and there is going to be a need for more batteries produced and all that goes with them.............well lets jump in early and expand. In other words I contend we didn't need to spend 800 million dollars to help things along that most likely will take place with or without TAX PAYER DOLLARS being spent. If there are going to be more cars on the road needing larger batteries these places would have been expanded or built regardless so don't try and justify spending my Grandchild's money on something that would happen with or without money they haven't earned yet!

Now when your driving your battery powered car on vacation and run out of juice are you going to fill up at a gas station with the other antiques? We need to start working on quick charging machines and have stations for these cars to stop and get charged in a hurry.

"EAT AT JOE'S............WE'LL CHARGE YOU WHILE YOU DINE!"

"BATTERY CHARGING WHILE YOU SLEEP.............WE'LL LEAVE THE CHARGER ON!"