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Comment Re:I’m calling out all sides (Score 1) 414

It's not one group that is smaller than them, NOBODY talks about this. The Jews are a distinct people group with one tiny country. The Palestinians are not a people group, they are Arab Muslims, and a nationality. That doesn't mean I think Palestinians have no rights, but the two are not remotely the same. There are 50 Muslim countries, probably a dozen Arab, Muslim countries. Arab Muslims living in Israel are pretty happy, and Palestinians have plenty of other places they could go - but they won't. Because their goal is to drive the Jews out of the middle east and/or eradicate them. Jews are the IPOC of that land. Their history and archaeology prove it. The Jews are a people group with only one country, facing genocide. Palestinians are a nationality that could go anywhere, but don't want to, and should maybe have a free country if they can. Hamas is a terrorist organization that needs to be eradicated.

Comment Re:Let me see if I've got this right... (Score 1) 139

My opinion, is that you should not be picking on trucking fees. An honest question; do you really understand logistics? You could absolutely make trucks pay more, what would be the outcomes? It would drive up prices on consumer goods not only for obvious, but also obscure reasons. "so people who drive anything but heavy vehicles are getting completely fucked over on fees." No, they are saving money on everything they buy where that cost has been passed along. It's a chicken and egg, or pay me now-pay me later problem. "End result, the people who buy goods that come off a truck are subsidized by people who don't.*" People who don't is effectively approaching 0%. You can shift the cost to different sectors but it all hits the end user. There is the discussion of economic, supply, climate and social issues, I will be using US info as that is what I am familiar with. - A US Semi-truck and trailer can carry ~40,000 US pounds at ~6-8 US Mi/Gal. Moderate size trucks and vans might carry about 4000lb at twice the Fuel efficiency per load, but that is !/5 the efficiency per lb. Let's break that down. Your idea of improvement is to put 10x the number of vehicles on the road, using 5x the fuel, causing untold congestion. IT will be more than 5x as much fuel because they are stuck in 10x as much truck traffic. You can pin the bill on trucking, but it will make economic, supply, climate and social issues all worse.

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