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You left out the bit about how lefties are all godless blasphemers who want to destroy the natural order of the world by allowing women to go around with their heads uncovered or even drive cars.
Well, the lefties do seem to get awfully upset whenever anyone criticizes the biggest-by-far group of people who believe those things. The word "Islamophobia" comes to mind for some reason.
How much will it cost to purchase the electricity to recharge that battery pack? It is naive to assume that electricity to recharge cars will be cheaper than gasoline to power cars once the electricity is the primary fuel source.
Especially if construction of new power plants is artificially constrained. Besides the environmental argument, there's always a fair amount of NIMBYism -- "I want my electric car, but I don't want the power plant that runs it to be anywhere near where I live." While there's nothing inherently wrong with that sentiment (I wouldn't blame someone who likes beef yet doesn't like the smell of a cattle ranch), it is another upward force on price.
Gasoline is not priced by supply and demand, it is priced by what the market will bear. Why would you expect electric recharging to be any different?
"Supply and demand" and "what the market will bear" are precisely the same thing. Or do you mean that energy demand is partly inelastic? In that case, I agree with you.
Ever see those Tea Party rallies?
Yep, attended one a while ago, actually.
I think the only value that all of them have in common is lower taxes and smaller government. After that, all bets off. The ultra-religious Christian Taliban loony toonies get all the press -
And that says far more about the press, than about the Tea Party movement.
the ones that kind of hijacked the Tea Party and turned it from a strictly fiscal conservative movement into one that also has the social conservatives;
A key point of the movement is for different groups normally associated with conservative politics to put aside their differences and focus on something they agree on. For instance, at the rally I attended, there were folks who agreed and who disagreed with current US foreign policy when I spoke to them.
which I get the impression that the social conservatives now pretty much run the show
They'd certainly like to, but there was very little in the way of social-related anything at the rally I went to. No mention of abortion at all. The pro gay marriage GOProud folks were handing out flyers and such, without a single unkind word towards any of them, but other than that, nothing related to sex during the speeches or on the signs. Perhaps I missed something. What should I have been keeping a look out for?
There's a bit of a difference between calling something by a silly name, and threatening legal action against someone. I don't recall anyone from the US State Department (equivalent to the Foreign Ministry, I assume) ever mentioning the matter, much less threatening anyone who avoided the matter by just calling them "fries."
Though I do wonder: legal action? What are they going to sue Google for? The closet thing I can think of is lack of trademark attribution, which is still light years away from being applicable.
I knew some Saudi guys who were perfectly pious in their own country, but vacationed in Florida to booze it up and hit the titty bars.
On a less-extreme note, I recall the way people in Iran (at least the ones I knew) treated Ramadan when I was there. Theoretically, you're supposed to fast during the day, plus pray and reflect a lot in general. In reality, most folks fasted during the day, then at sundown everybody got together to stuff themselves, party, and crank up the (shudder) disco. Forgive them. It was the seventies, they knew not what they were doing.
Note: not saying anything specific about Moslems, of course. Most Christians in the US are no more pious than that at Christmas or Easter.
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