Maybe the American people should want their corporations to not slash jobs then have parties costing millions of dollars where the execs of the company celebrate that their new multimillion dollar bonuses. That is what HP did after cutting hundreds of thousands of American jobs not once but multiple times.

Funny how these companies never outsource the execs to India. Pretty sure we can have an Indian do the job for a tenth of what the American execs get.

That would save a lot more money for the company.

FYI American execs pay is several hundred times that of the non exec workers in the company. Other countries on the other hand it is 20-50 times the non exec worker in the company. Prior to the 1980s the American exec pay was 20-50 times what the non exec worker in the company made. We still had millionaires and billionaire execs then.

Sorry but blame greed and lack of a long term view among the corporate class for how the American worker is struggling.

What if we could produce biofuel withtout using forests and crops but rather "giesta", a plant that multiplies rapidly, needs no human intervention and is a wild plant?

A Portuguese lab just did that

http://translate.google.pt/translate?sl=pt&am...a%26page%3D-1&act=url

Photovoltaic panels made from plant materials...o traditional solar cells.

Now its a race?

in other words - regardless of which renewable energy technology wins out at the end, we all win ;).

Yes, we won't be able to replace conventional fuels from one day to the next, but we can make an effort to cut out the unbelievable excesses and waste and rotate out "dirty energy" as clean ones become available. Germany - a highly industrialized nation - now gets more than 20% of its energy from renewable sources. So change is possible, no just a lofty idea.