Yeah, but Big Oil enjoyed it for half a century before that, which means other people paid more taxes all that time to pick up the slack.

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OPEC is not sitting on a sufficient fraction of the oil market to actually have much influence anymore. If they try anything, Canada will just boil some more sand.

Remember to subtract the costs of respiratory diseases, heart diseases, and general loss of welfare caused by car emissions. Fuel is taxed for a reason, it was not picked randomly.

The maximum airspeed in coffin corner is because the plane doesn't have any more thrust to go faster - not a structural limit.

Diesel electric on train is done to get torque conversion. Good luck designing a gearbox that can get a 1km long freight train started. Train engines would be more efficient if you could get rid of the hybrid system.

The primary advantage of a hybrid is that it gets the petrol engine running at close to maximum load at all times. Petrol engines are horribly inefficient at partial load. Diesel engines have much less of a problem with partial load, so you gain little from adding the hybrid system. They are also large, heavy and expensive, whereas what you generally want from a range extender engine is small and light and cheap.

If anything, for some plug-in hybrids it might make more sense to have a small turbine as range extenders. Fuel efficiency might suffer a bit, but mass produced it should be smaller, lighter and cheaper than the petrol engine. Of course it is difficult for anything new to beat something which has been refined as much as petrol engines.

SUV's only protect them if they drive badly at low speed. Good luck if they have to swerve around something. Luckily cars are always fitted with basic safety systems like electronic stability control, so the car is unlikely to actually roll. Oh wait, it is the US we are talking about.

Electricity is heavily taxed in England. At least I hope it is, otherwise the prices here are completely outrageous.

Methane on the other hand is rather cheap and probably not heavily taxed, but no one is driving CNG cars. Compressing it at home seems like an obvious way of avoiding fuel taxes...

Norway is probably the place in the world that has the most electric vehicles per capita.

If it is really cold, you are already plugging your gas fueled car in overnight, without the electric heating it will not start in the morning. A plugged in electric vehicle can be set to preheat the cabin, and if you time the charging so that you put the last few percent in just before leaving, you will be starting with a warm battery.

Best of all, in Sweden and Norway most electricity is hydroelectricity.

Filtering on /22 is not really sustainable these days. People filter at all sorts of boundaries, but you can generally get away with a /24. Those who filter /24's tend to keep a default route to a more lenient provider.

However, if you don't need your files often, but rather just want a place to archive them, you can take a look at Amazon Glacier - an archiving and backup solution. You can even implement lifecycle policies inside your S3 buckets to automatically move files older than X days from S3 to Glacier, which is much cheaper.

You missed Washington's half-century handjob for Big Oil, the Oil Depletion Allowance.

http://wps.aw.com/aw_carltonper_modernio_4/21/5566/1424998.cw/content/index.html

One year Texaco paid less in Federal Income Tax than just one of the cleaning ladies at its NY headquarters.

You left out the part where, after being greeted as liberators and having flowers strewn in our path by the grateful natives, we'd have a massive military presence there as far into the future as the imagination could see, smack dab in the middle of the Middle East and handy to put the smackdown on any other "towelheads" in the countries around there who dared to interfere with our getting "our" oil out from underneath their sands.

Yeah, Chinese dumping of solar cells on the market below cost had nothing to do with Solyndra's problems, just like Japanese dumping of television sets on the American market in the early '70s had no deleterious effects on U.S. television manufacturers.