Toyota

Wednesday May 18, 2005 - 11:34AM EDT

Toyota is impressing me lately. I had said 10 years and all their cars would be hybrid. Looks like it may be sooner. Starting in late 2006 they will make their top selling car, the Camry in a hybrid version. And they already make the Highlander, Lexus RX400h and Prius hybrids with a Lexus sport sedan hybrid is on the way. And the technology can only get better especially battery life. I was just thinking. Hydrogen fuel cell technology could probably dominate in 5 - 10 years if there wasn't the obstacle of pertroleum companies. We could use the existing infrastructure of gas stations and make them hydrogen fueling stations. If is fucking senseless how companies survive by bleeding the consumer of their cash instead of just advancing technological process for the good of the planet and humans. Car companies should already be testing out fleet vehicles like public transportation with hydrogen fuel cells. Think about it. How cool would it be to have every bus in Philadelphia run on clean hydrogen fuel cells? It would be quieter for one reason. One cannot over look the noise pollution caused by vehicles. We have all gotten used to the incessant noise of the road but eventually that may be a thing of the past. Fuel cell buses, quieter, no more black soot while driving behind one. All these things are possible now but some fuckers like to mess around, make excuses and horde resources. I've been thinking about this lately. Having a lot of money in the bank. One could argue that putting money in the back helps everybody. Yes this would be true if banks operated in a fashion in which they themselves did not horde resources but facilitated the distribution of money among the populace. But they don't although they could and would be much more efficient at it than any government agency. I suppose that is the idea of a bank in its purest idealistic form but in reality their practices serve merely to enforce a class system that creates disproportionate wealth among a small percentage of the population. The rich get richer. But it is funny because there are mounds of evidence that monetary wealth beyond a modest point is essentially worthless. But yet somehow as a soceity the pinnacle of living is generally seen as large amounts of monetary wealth. The pinnacle for me is progress, innovation, exploration. I think it is for everyone else too. But the specter of our monetary system haunts those things. You can't blame the system completely and you can't blame the people completely. Modications are needed on both fronts. It is a freaking paradox, catch-22 or whatever you want to call it. You have to know where to make the modifications to be able to make the next one without throwing the whole system out of wack.