When I heard our Legislature had passed the Bill for Café standards of 35.5 by 2016, I thought that this has to be a cruel joke! This has to be a sell-out to the oil industry. Obviously, as per recent TV coverage of auto shows, the auto manufacturers here and around the world are ready to go electric and hydrogen.

It just like health care legislation and everything else, the legislature is dictated by giant corporations and their lobbyists.

Mergers and acquisitions not only have to stop but must be unraveled back to pre-1970s. There is no need for giant and/or international corporations in the contemporary world of the internet. I recall Rupert Murdock trying to convince a House or Senate Committee on the Communications industry that Newscorp should be allowed to swallow both horizontal and vertical competing media companies because it would make for a more efficient and cost effective delivery of information and entertainment. Well, we know how that turned out. Now we have five or six media giants controlling every genre of media.

The same is true of the banking industry. My hometown S & L (Beeville, TX) was doing just fine before being made a cash conduit to distant, anonymous, homogenizing, dominating, profiteering mega-financial institutions.

Here is what the revolution should look like.

With the internet, all types of businesses and other organizations can connect, share, cooperate, collaborate in a much more egalitarian, mutually facilitating, extremely more cost effective manner.

The whole world is rapidly changing and entirely new forms of governing and new types of economic systems can make things better the world over. However, this will mean a massive reconfiguration of global goals and methods and revolutionary new, more efficient, environmentally friendly products. This will mean equal and equitable distribution of goods worldwide, underdeveloped countries included.

It will also mean massive dislocations, and relocations of the labor force. It will mean everyone, wealthy and powerful and poor and dis-empowered alike will have to deal with sacrifice and hardship for a decade or so.

However, I envision that this will also, eventually, result in stabilization of families and communities. There should be a minimum of geo-mobility. There should be a restoration of neighborhoods that are not just more productive, but also more naturally and wholesomely organized, more rewarding in material ways but more importantly in endeavors that feel and are meaningful and fulfilling to the inhabitants, but most importantly this will mean all types of people can begin to relate in a more personal and friendly way.

In this new, revolutionary world, all social institutions can be reformed to be more natural and humane in a new world that is not vertically controlled by a few sociopathic corporations. The era of the robber barons with greedy, grasping, iron hands designing the new laws for their sole benefit and skirting the old laws that are virtual travesties of what is supposed to be a just and even-handed regulation of society. This will mean the end of an elitist perpetrated parody of the idea of the rule of law and not of men.