Bill James of Jpods is a man on a mission of
liberation. He sees himself upholding the United States Constitution by undoing a Federal "monopoly" on transportation. Bill despairs over the oil-guzzling stupidity of our road-focused infrastructure, He knows well the agony of bloodshed especially when it’s over
something as mundane as gas and oil. “Our dependency on oil is a lot like the
antebellum South’s dependence on slaves.” He calculates that a barrel of oil is
the equivalent of twelve slaves for a year. We need to stop this.
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| Bill James;s happy solar vision, |
James’s thinking focuses on US constitutional
issues that have produced intolerable congestion and carnage on our Interstate highways of the oil-giddy 1950s thanks to General Dwight D. Eisenhower as president in the 1960s. He
argues that Government needs to get out of monopolistic assumptions that cars
and streets are the beginning and end of American life. Young people today are not as infatuated with cars. Smartcars are emerging as major generational shifts take place. Jpods aims at them as it integrates solar power collection into PRT
designs. “PRT technology is not the issue. Morgantown’s decades of safe and
reliable service is today’s baseline.”
Jpods has obtained formal consent from the New Jersey town of
Secaucus to install and operate within their jurisdiction. James works with
Atlantic Energy, a Sacramento-based manufacturer of solar roofing tiles. With a
network of West Point classmates and friends, he is opening new mobility
dialogs with Boston – the City and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And he
may yet be the first to break podcar dirt in Silicon Valley.
