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I've been fleet management for 17 years now. During that entire time I have heard the call for alternate fuels, been forced to spend tax dollars on half baked experiments with alternate fuel vehicles, received mandates, heard promises. At this point in time my outlook is not very optimistic. (where are the flying cars I was promised as a kid) I think I may have stumbled into some wisdom that is escaping many. There is a question Why can we not solve this problem and the simple answer is that we really don't want to.



The internal combustion engine is 100 years old (give or take a few years) we have refined it, retooled it and made it better but at its core its still ancient technology by our standards. In every other field in industry we do not rely on technology as old as the internal combustion engine. If this clip doesn't prove anything else it proves that it really does not matter who is in power until we want the problem really solved it wont be.

cleaning the stream

Roughly 10 years ago I was having a conversation with my boss. We were discussing how we were leaving the information age and entering in the blur age. Information came at us so fast and so often that it was all a blur. Since then social networks, twitter, rss feeds, blogs, and many other things have come into play. All of these things spit information at us faster than anything did 10 years ago. I got sucked into it all and while trying to get as many face book friends and twitter followers as I could I created my own information overload. So its time to clean my data stream and slow the flow.