需要经济刺激包！救助大型汽车。保释华尔街。接下来，由于石油价格下跌而释放大石油。现在，国债现在超过100万亿美元（占国内生产总值的69％），并增长，大规模的愚蠢丧失抵押品赎回权，现在不那么不太依赖的抵押贷款，信用系统中的信贷系统，失业率转向抑郁水平，一场未完成的战争这是用于资源的黑洞和一个无法正常工作的经济刺激计划，这个国家需要一个计划。
当前存在经济问题的原因有很多。一些更受欢迎的候选人是大减税，将军方扩展到两次战争中，并放松了华尔街投机者的管制。但是，我认为对这个国家的经济和生活质量造成的最大危险是我们对石油的上瘾。必须严重减少。
GRIFFIS
很长一段时间以来，我们一直关心峰值油。随着世界上有限的资源，它最终将用完。在1971年至2004年之间，全球石油的消费量翻了一番。到2030年，它将再增加50％。随着世界人口从2008年的67亿增加到2050年的92亿，在中国增长的汽车和卡车数量以速度增长。我认为，每年15％的数字每5年的数字每5年增加一倍以上），我认为这些消费数字是保守的。任何认为永远有限资源消费量可能会呈指数增长的人都是疯子，或者是经济学家。
But, one might say, the price of oil is down now. Drivers are happy. Understand a Saudi prince was quoted as saying “The stone age did not end because of the lack of stones.” They know that the oil age will not end for lack of oil. It will end when innovation and technology makes it obsolete. The answer to the US economy, US prestige, and US world leadership lies in making oil obsolete for all but special applications.
How do we do this? It requires a public–private bailout. Not the kind where one puts dollars down a black hole. It requires the kind that develops new US industries, new US infrastructure, and a new US transportation system. These systems are based on electrical energy, clean, reliable, abundant, and inexpensive electrical energy. The concept is as follows:
- All automobiles will run on batteries. To do this, the first goal is to develop an automobile system that will run 450 miles on three batteries connected in series. This means developing a battery with certain size specifications that will power an automobile 150 miles. The gas-station infrastructure will evolve into a battery-station infrastructure. To fill up, one exchanges batteries at market prices. A temporary crossover system might have to rely on compressed natural gas until the battery technology is perfected. Bailout required: Whatever it takes to develop the batteries and automobiles and evolve the infrastructure.
- Develop a second-generation superconducting maglev transport network with a goal of eliminating 50% of long haul trucks from the highways and 100% of the regional airlines that are over-crowing the airports. Superconducting maglev consumes less than 15% of the energy used by conventional rail and much less than that used by airlines or automobiles. It uses only electrical power. Bailout required: Government provides development funds through common carrier certifications and authorizes use of interstate highway right-of-ways. Private sector builds the system to include the infrastructure. High-speed rail in some corridors may act as interim cross over solution.
- 更换和升级国家电网，以使能量从盈余传输到短缺区域。开发风力发电，太阳能生产，潮汐和水力设施以及核发电站。需要救助：更换国家电网约1万亿美元。
- 继续提高航空公司效率，以最大程度地减少石油使用。
这些救助应伴随立法倡议，其中最重要的是应该是“购买美国”条款。开发的车辆不应是加拿大人，不应从中国进口岩石的混凝土指南，并且电池生产不应来自日本或其他地方。这应该是一个经济刺激计划，为这个国家创造产业和就业。我们花在外国石油上的近5万亿美元就足够了。让我们尊重全球化和平坦的世界，但这一次将工作和行业保留在这里。
