tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15591962.post4499928130340251988..comments2023-07-09T04:08:59.795-07:00Comments on Guz's World: Generica in the 2000s?Jessehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12629138613727829706noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15591962.post-68887525693612834792008-10-24T12:32:00.000-07:002008-10-24T12:32:00.000-07:00maybe the dollar can stay low and the big boxes ca...maybe the dollar can stay low and the big boxes can become spaces where american's actually make things again... but what to make!? plastic refuse shipped from port of oakland to china, recycled into happy meal toy, and sent back to mcdonald kid's pocket? Nope. plastic refuse sent to big box shell in Oakland, turned into happy meal toy, shipped to mcdonald kids pocket in china. shit, doesn't solve much. Lets make solar panels in big box shells, then its negligible shipping energy to just throw them up on the roof! solar has to be cheaper/better/subsidized more and big box real estate tends to be suburban real estate which tended to be superficially inflated in value before the bust and now not so good: difficult to make the new energy leap when you have such a slumping car dependent economy and tax base. walmart actually did start putting panels on their roofs... but only because energy prices are on the up and up. funny how us buying cheap stuff from china in a big box is how they could afford to make the high initial investment.<BR/><BR/>the first step in dealing with Big Box is disallowing new ones to be built or rather their parking lot culture (or maybe a freeze until the electric car comes online, but that's only a half the problem). I all boils down to your bike theory jesse. maybe big box shells should start churning out cheap subsidized bikes! there could be bike trails through wilderness reclaimed from suburbia from coast to coast! finally i can breathe again!brian harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439973438580242334noreply@blogger.com