I just came across this letter written by Documentary Filmmaker and Michigan Native Michael Moore.

It’s written in typically Michael Moore style and doesn’t pull a lot of punches.

Among some of the things he says that are particularly relevant to sustainable transportation:

Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine. This great, vast manufacturing network can redeem itself by building mass transit and electric/hybrid cars, and the kind of transportation we need for the 21st century.

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Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. And because we are facing a massive economic, energy and environmental crisis, the new president and Congress must do what Franklin Roosevelt did when he was faced with a crisis (and ordered the auto industry to stop building cars and instead build tanks and planes): The Big 3 are, from this point forward, to build only cars that are not primarily dependent on oil and, more importantly to build trains, buses, subways and light rail (a corresponding public works project across the country will build the rail lines and tracks). This will not only save jobs, but create millions of new ones.

If you are interested in hearing more about what Mr. Moore has to say about all of this, he will be on Kieth Olbermann tonight.