Comments on: Michigan's Fundamental Jobs Shift http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/michigans-fundamental-jobs-shift/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:45:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: steve http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/michigans-fundamental-jobs-shift/#comment-47361 steve Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:41:19 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=896#comment-47361 Wow, Thanks Boona, i looked at that website and I have to say, that I am amazed. I thought up this idea a few years ago in response to the auto industry's woes. The impact on energy use and other benefits was a second tier set of benefits to helping the auto industry first, since that is Michigan's major issue. All the other locations that are apparently doing the same type of thing i suggested to our state, are doing them solely for the benefit of the energy and environmental impacts. Isnt that ironic. And its ironic that no one else in michigan found it to be a good enough idea to punch it through some channels for investigation, while we sit with the biggest Auto industry losses and peripheral problems from it and we languish instead of think outside the box. Wow, Thanks Boona, i looked at that website and I have to say, that I am amazed.
I thought up this idea a few years ago in response to the auto industry's woes. The impact on energy use and other benefits was a second tier set of benefits to helping the auto industry first, since that is Michigan's major issue.
All the other locations that are apparently doing the same type of thing i suggested to our state, are doing them solely for the benefit of the energy and environmental impacts. Isnt that ironic.
And its ironic that no one else in michigan found it to be a good enough idea to punch it through some channels for investigation, while we sit with the biggest Auto industry losses and peripheral problems from it and we languish instead of think outside the box.

]]> By: Boona http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/michigans-fundamental-jobs-shift/#comment-45373 Boona Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:42:59 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=896#comment-45373 Steve, Keep on keeping on until you received some answer is what I would encourage you to do in regards to not getting an answer back from the Governor’s office. Sometimes correspondences get lost, so I would not give up until you do get a response if you really feel strongly about your idea. Here is how the Canadian Government is handling there similar program: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/canada_introduc.html Steve,
Keep on keeping on until you received some answer is what I would encourage you to do in regards to not getting an answer back from the Governor’s office. Sometimes correspondences get lost, so I would not give up until you do get a response if you really feel strongly about your idea.

Here is how the Canadian Government is handling there similar program: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/canada_introduc.html

]]> By: Steve Wei http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/michigans-fundamental-jobs-shift/#comment-44472 Steve Wei Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:05:05 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/?p=896#comment-44472 A couple years ago, i submitted an online proposal to the governor's office as an idea that would boost auto sales for the big3, lower our statewide gas and oil consumption, help middle class and poor people get reliable transportation to get to work and back, and remove the older beat up vehicles not being used as classic resto cars from the roads. My idea was to establish a fund from whatever means necessary to create rebates for new or newer used car purchases getting over 30mpg avg, if you turn in a older beat up vehicle getting under some arbitrary avg mpg like 20. the value of the rebate not based on what you turn in, but based on what you buy up to a top $ amount. This would have helped the big 3 in some ways. If the biggest challenge our state faces is the diminishing employment and sales of the big3, then why not do direct acts that could help that issue? Here now shows other states doing something similar - http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/30/news/economy/retire_cars/index.htm?postversion=2008063014 I received NO answer from the Govs office on my idea. nice. A couple years ago, i submitted an online proposal to the governor's office as an idea that would boost auto sales for the big3, lower our statewide gas and oil consumption, help middle class and poor people get reliable transportation to get to work and back, and remove the older beat up vehicles not being used as classic resto cars from the roads.

My idea was to establish a fund from whatever means necessary to create rebates for new or newer used car purchases getting over 30mpg avg, if you turn in a older beat up vehicle getting under some arbitrary avg mpg like 20. the value of the rebate not based on what you turn in, but based on what you buy up to a top $ amount.
This would have helped the big 3 in some ways. If the biggest challenge our state faces is the diminishing employment and sales of the big3, then why not do direct acts that could help that issue?

Here now shows other states doing something similar -
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/30/news/economy/retire_cars/index.htm?postversion=2008063014

I received NO answer from the Govs office on my idea.
nice.

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