Let American Ingenuity Shine Once more...

So the "Big 3" have made their second appearance at Congress, hats in hands, asking the American public for money, while it has been reported in news media that the average auto worker takes home almost 78 dollars an hour. First time they appeared, they arrived in private jets. Second time, we heard how they would only take home a dollar a year in pay, AND they arrived in hybrid cars. What is going to be done to change the situation? Make more hybrid cars! The hybrid cars are priced so high, that's it's not worth it -- you might as well buy the gas-eater, because you won't get your money's worth out of the hybrids. That's the way I've been understanding things.... I could be wrong.


I know this may sound gross as an idea (I say this because when I stated this in my vehicle, my teen-age son yelled, "EWW, that's GROSS!"), but why are we not looking at items that are considered waste products and try, instead to turn these products into sources of fuel? Take urine, for example... there are ions in urine that produce charges. Why are we not trying to figure out a safe way to utilize our own personal waste to operate our vehicles? Instead of telling our children, "Make sure you empty your bladder before we go," we could give them a big old bottle of water and tell them to hold it until we're on the road! Isn't there a way that any impurities could be burned off -- you know, in case someone has a sickness like AIDS or something like that -- by a vehicle running on urine power? Imagine the water that would be saved from not flushing this down our septic systems! Why is no one looking at solutions such as this? I assure you I would buy a car that ran on urine power!

I don't want the "same-old, same-old." America is a country known for inventing marvelous things that aided society. We are the land of the telegraph, the steamship, the Pony Express, the airplane, baseball and basketball, the telephone, the electric light; we're the land that actually discovered oil in the first place -- in Titusville, PENNSYLVANIA, of all places -- not a desert. When are we going to start putting our heads together and utilize that "good old American ingenuity" that we are known for, instead of holding our necks out and our mouths open for the government to feed us with our own tax money? Come on, America -- let's get rolling, again! Let's use this economic turmoil as a time to let the humble inventor to shine once again! I know we can do it. I pray we can do it.