> Under the proposed changes, I'll pay per mile. 50 miles per gallon means I'm driving about 42.5 miles a day. So 42.5 miles * $.027 = $1.1475 tax a day. $1.1475 * 365 = $418.8375 a year. So for bothering to drive a hybrid (how dare I!!!) I'll go from $189.873 up to $418.837. $419 / 190 = 221% increase in gas tax.

Meanwhile you're not paying for roughly $2400/yr in gasoline. If you were driving a gasoline vehicle at a typical 30mpg, your 42.5 miles per day would burn about 1.42 gallons which, at a statewide average cost of $4.569/gal, is $6.47 per day, or $2362.55 per year.

Your annual fuel cost savings decreases from $2172.68 to $1943.71.

So did your have a point or are you just bitter your free ride might be slowing down a tiny bit?

> The asshole in the 20mpg tank won't notice a difference

The asshole getting 20mpg is already paying almost ten times what you would be under the proposed tax at $0.228/mi at current state average gas prices, and I disagree that they won't notice that jump ~12%.

> YAY I'm so happy to be green

I should hope so with an extra 2 grand in your pocket every year over the alternative. Also FYI those higher registration fees are there to make up for the gasoline prices you're already not paying, which is nearly double the tax you'd be paying at the pump otherwise.

"They dropped the cover charge and made admittance to the bar free! How DARE they charge more for drinks!"
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/AND you probably claimed a tax credit buying that vehicle...

> why vehicle weight doesn't get mentioned in their idea

It's because the difference between 3000 and 4000 lbs is practically negligible. Yeah it's a 4th power relationship, but 3000 to 4000 lbs is about 3x the wear rate and 3 multiplied by practically nothing is still practically nothing.

Not to say I'm against including weight as part of the tax calculation, because it would incentivize people using smaller vehicles which helps in a lot of other ways.
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Multiculturalism is having people of different cultures living in the same area. Its not fucking restaurant food. Go get yourself a clue.

"There are many who perceive countries that welcome immigrants to be gullible idiots that they can take advantage of"

And they'd be correct.

"Japan is starting to notice diversity is not a strength"

Japan never fell for that multi culti BS propaganda in the first place. Its a very racially homogenous country and all the better for it.

Phone 101 and you'll be lucky if anyone bothers to answer before you get a message saying to contact via social media or email or die of old age, so what do people do? They phone the emergency 999 number and clog it up. Though if someone has just stolen your car or chucked a brick through your window its an emergency for you.

A 300 foot cable in a built up area probably with lots of things it could get caught on? What could possibly go wrong.

"If there is, it is extremely weak, below the scale of Higgs interactions, on the scale of gravity"

And you know this how? Where is the proof that these forces can't exist given we have no way to measure them?

"The best fit to the data is a particle that doesn't interact with baryonic matter or itself."

Since when? The CBR gives no such indication, just a general indication of the spread of baryonic matter in the early universe. It says nothing whatsoever about dark matter.

And the reason there couldn't be some kind of dark electrostatic force which dark matter interacts with is? There could be an entire gamut of forces unknown to us that only interact with dark matter.

... other than it responds to gravity, there could be an entire alternate universe consising of dark matter stars, planets etc hidden in plain site and perhaps dark energy could be some form of alternative EM radiation that only interacts with dark matter - dark light if you will - that said dark stars emit.

Meanwhile in France 70% of their power comes from nuclear and their energy prices are lower than the UK.

> These programs work well in intensely impoverished areas

[Citation needed]

I'm not saying you're wrong, or even that I disagree; But the catch here is that the places where this program presumably has the biggest impact are also the places where little to no data is available.

But also, if the OLPC are actually existing and being used... they have network connectivity. Presumably they need some form of internet to "give access to information that otherwise just wouldn't be there" if only intermittently or by proxy, which in turn should provide a way to collect usage statistics and/or track students in these hard to survey populations.

Either way you can't claim they work well in any population without actual data or reports to support that claim.
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... most likely in brain development. Some people mature very quickly, others never mature at all. As the saying goes , some people grow old and wise, others just grow old.

The 1990s called, they want their meme back.

Mad cow disease, seriously? That hasn't been a thing for 30 years.

"Just because some PFAS chemicals are toxic and last forever doesnt necessarily mean that all of them are evil"

The problem is the C-F bond. Its very hard for our ecosystem to break it and even if some of the molecule gets broken down there will still be a flourinated residue compound that isn't.