What does Houston stand for if not the oil industry? Houston benefited from its nefarious alliance with the Motor City, Detroit, to marginalize U.S. environmentalism, destroy public transit and subjugate every oil producing nation by bribing their sheikhs and dictators to sell out their citizenry.
We already saw one kind of retribution in 9/11. Now Mother Nature has joined the cause.
Just as the auto industry's Detroit — the one place in which Martin Luther King, Jr., felt unfettered hate — was allowed to decline and die after the city's African-American poor exploded against inequality in 1967, Houston is now feeling the effect of climate change among the anti-Mexican Texas kickers.
Auto and oil industries, allied sectors and a few of their most suborned politicians conspired to destroy public transit (see the 1947 conviction of General Motors for conspiracy to destroy electric tramway systems) and prevent environmental measure that, in the 1970s might have stopped and reversed climate change. Even a Republican, the notorious Richard Nixon, recognized the need for environmental action by establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
Now it's too late. Climate change is irreversible, we can only soften the blows. The electric streetcar is gone. The Arab world is seeing the worst passions inflamed by deep and justified resentment at the exploitation, and now endless war, wrought on their countries by the West.
That is why Houston is flooded.
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I have a friend who learned his mechanic trade at Chevrolet in Detroit in the early 70s. Back here in CT he worked for a dealer who, as was custom among owners, was shipped a new car.
They opened the hood and the engine was of a design never seen before...even by Cliff who had just completed training. The owner called Detroit to express his bewilderment.
Next thing, a team arrived, covered all the windows and secreted the car which had been shipped by mistake, out of the showroom.
It turned out that it was a car designed to exceed all expectation for gas mileage. Detroit squashed it.
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