Tag: Dangerously Incompetent

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met with Gov. Rick Snyder and the state Senate Republican leader Tuesday on the long-stalled regional transit authority.

LaHood praised the meeting with Sen. Majority Leader Randy Richardville and said progress was being made. He said he planned to meet with the state House Speaker Jase Bolger early next month.

"I believe within the next month or so we will be able to make some announcements and we're making a lot of progress and I things are moving in the right direction," LaHood said.

In February 2010, the Transportation Department awarded $25 million for Detroit light rail as part of a 9.3-mile, $500 million project that was to travel up Woodward to Eight Mile.

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Speaker Bolger, here's a chance to redeem yourself with stopping this wasteful progressive agenda by a No Go in the House on Gov JenniRick Snydholms' utopian Regional Transit Authority.

The U.S. Transportation Department today will launch a 3,000-vehicle test of "smart car" technology in Ann Arbor.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland will join automakers to begin the yearlong test, the largest to date.

Vehicle-to-vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly reduce crash fatalities and injuries and could one day help motorists avoid crashes altogether, Strickland said.

This first-of-its-kind effort will test a Wi-Fi-like technology by which vehicles and highways can "talk" to each other and perhaps reduce crashes and improve traffic congestion. Cars, for example, could alert each other that a driver was about to miss a stop sign or pull onto a busy street. Or that a vehicle has entered a driver's blind spot.

The test will include vehicle-to-vehicle crash avoidance technologies such as forward-collision warnings, "do not pass" alerts and warnings that a vehicle ahead has stopped suddenly. It also will involve some vehicle-to-roadway testing.

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The emphasis as it turns out, will be placed on her part in not passing a budget in well over three years.  Calling her "NoBudgetDebbie", new ads point out that fact as well as the inability to be fiscally responsible on our behalf.

Below is the video accompanying the campaign.

The Lansing Democrat unveiled the Charging America Forward Act -- a bill that would authorize the U.S. Energy Department to award another $2 billion in grants "for the manufacturing of advanced batteries and components, and provide facility funding awards" for vehicle batteries, hybrid electrical systems and components.

The bill would include a provision to make it easier for electric vehicle owners to quickly use a government tax incentive.

What?

Oh pardon me.  Let me reel that back in just a wee bit before I embarrass myself with a remarkable lack of knowledge about what is happening around here.  Well, you know what I mean.  I mean 'knowledge', as in 'open eyes,' and even the slightest observation skills.  Senses to be sure!  By golly I need to FEEL what is going on don't I?  I mean, really FEEL what is going on in a way that leave no question how I should talk about it, report on it, or perhaps ACT on it.  In fact, maybe in the way that our junior Senator does:

"..the lack of global warming has left desperate politicians looking like fools.

"I feel global warming when I fly," says Senator Debbie Stabenow.  .."

Looking?

Oh my.  Those nice boys at the Michigan view certainly are gracious. Undoubtedly, polite to the end.