Comment Re:No winners economically (Score 1) 268
That's extremely short-sighted. Eventually the economy wins because we have less of the pollution and other environmental damage from coal.
That's extremely short-sighted. Eventually the economy wins because we have less of the pollution and other environmental damage from coal.
Austrian-school economics isn't evidence-based, so he doesn't care.
Sorry, no. That's a conspiracy theory website.
More like you're too busy chasing conspiracy theories to know when you're being mocked for it.
We have inflation becasue the Federal Government spends more than it takes in.
I stopped taking you seriously right there.
IMO pretty much any taxation and spending should be automatically indexed against inflation.
Then, of course, you'd have endless politicking about which inflation measure to use...
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Reread that. I said "excuse", and "excuse" I meant. I never claimed that was the real reason.
Japan's excuse for bombing Pearl Harbor was that we'd stopped selling them oil.
The cost of electricity, assuming it was plugged in to begin with, would be negligible.
I've been wondering how come there's not a diesel hybrid.
Cost, probably. Diesels tend to be a few thousand dollars more than gasoline-powered vehicles, and then add the cost of hybridization on top of that.
Of course, I also wonder how come pneumatic hybrids aren't being developed more (I think Citroen is the only one out there).
Reliability? The pneumatic system implicitly has extra moving parts, and moving parts wear out.
Not exactly. The hybrid drive still comes into effect when you're accelerating on the highway (merging or passing, or going up a hill) or decelerating.
By your own numbers you're wrong: 41 MPG for a hybrid vs. 37 MPG. 4 isn't much, but it adds up.
The i.MIEV is not a hybrid. It's electric. Which has its own sales problems because the powertrain is so simple and robust that it requires very little maintenance, so dealers HATE selling them (they don't make as much profit on new car sales since their margins always get squeezed and someone has to pay the interest on those 0% financing and stuff). Dealers love it when customers come back for service, because service is a high-margin item. High enough they toss in stuff like free oil changes and other cheap things to encourage returning. And do it every 3-6 months, at that.
I wish I could be surprised and not merely disappointed that a conspiracy theory comment got +5 on Slashdot.
No, I logged in and I've still got Outlook 2007.
Can you link to a Democrat saying that? I ask because being pro-business is the Republican stereotype.
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