More Sources: Auto Mag says, Make it: Trains/Subways...

OH. I love these "more sources" columns that I find when others finally write about what I've been saying.

Please forgive my 15 seconds of "patting myself on my back".

There. I'm done now.

Jamie Kitman, a columnist for automobilemag.com writes here in the Feb. 09 issue (written as he says, during the December auto fiasco in congress), and says, (extra lines added for comprehension...)

The American automobile industry is melting down.

We're staring not just at the end of our industry's dominance of its domestic market but at the threat of its utter demise.

Some of our largest industrial enterprises, once America's preeminent job makers, teeter on the edge of insolvency.

...I have been harsh in my assessment of the American automotive industry. ...

Fuel prices helped throw the country into a recession, a credit crunch set consumer finance reeling, and now - barring extraordinary, never-before-attempted measures of government intervention - the domestic industry is going to die.

Unless you save it.So I have a plan, one I think you could live with. It's a big plan, and it addresses: national security, energy policy, and the collapse of the car industry...

But follow my plan and the Big Three will be seen as having arrived at the brink of bankruptcy at exactly the right moment. Because these companies, their factories, and their workers are going to have to diversify.

They might not be financially viable today, but it's not like these great enterprises and their people are no longer of value to the nation, far from it.

It's just that now is the time for them to build new things. New kinds of cars, trucks, and buses - after all, GM invented two-mode hybrid diesel bus technology - that don't burn fossil fuel, or that use less of it.

And how about trains, trolleys, and subway cars? We used to manufacture them here, but those once-lucrative industries are now dominated by foreign companies. It's time to reclaim these honorable lines of work on our way to actually doing something about energy independence and curtailing carbon emissions.

Wow.. (Mark here again...)

I am floored. I never EVER said I was the ONLY one that had these ideas. I am just usually SO SO far ahead of my time, that I never get taken seriously.

Mr. Kitman: Look HERE. I said the exact same thing in November. I truly hope your editorial gets noticed. I certainly was floored by it.

Thanks again...

mark brown in NJ