Resistant to Change

Today toward the end of class the topic of change was discussed. America (in general) seems unwilling to change in order to become a more "green" country. I agree with this point, so much emphasis is put on maintaining the way of life that American's currently know instead of instituting change to create a better future. One major example of this that comes to mind is the automotive industry. A large deal of effort seems to be put on saving the auto industry instead of letting it fail and allowing new technologies to fill the void. I feel that all the resources that are given to the failing automotive companies should instead be given to advance new technologies in the field and America would be much better off for it. It can be easily seen that gas engines are slowly becoming too inefficient and obsolete. Electric and hydrogen are two types of new technologies but these are not the only ones. While watching the discovery channel the other day I saw a air powered car. The vehicles run on compressed air and could vastly reduce the amount of green house gases omitted by cars if funding was put behind companies like this one in order to increase the amount of these vehicles on the road. It really just seems to me that many companies need to be left to fail in America in order for new "greener" companies to fill the void and receive the funding the old out of date technology is receiving. air powered car - http://www.mdi.lu/english/