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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I would love to see something as radical as one of the Big
> 3 auto companies
> convert their manufacturing plants to making solar panels,
> wind turbines or
> the like.

I like that idea. Should congress make that a condition of any bailout?  
As far as converting auto plants, wouldn't that be more expensive that 
starting over?
Having said that I think there is a mentality in our business/construction 
world that assumes it is always cheaper to tear down and start over. That 
causes us to waste a lot of our built environment and results in the loss of 
a lot of interesting structures.

> 
> It bothers me to think of how much money is being thrown at
> everything to
> try to maintain life as it was yesterday or as it is today.
> I personally
> would love to prepare more for tomorrow.
> 
> lkvp
> 

Methinks the business and economic world puts way too much focus on the short 
term vs. long term results.
Is part of that thinking based on the idea that growth, as in always 
expanding your business, is always good?