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coberly's comments:
on A Sustainable Auto Industry
i don't know what the experts know. but i don't have much faith in them either.
it seems to me they are making a mistake. they are trying to build an electric car that will do everything a gas car will do. this will take a while and be expensive.
they could put a cheap "city car" on the road today that would cut gas (equivalent)consumption in the cities by fifty percent, as well as ease ground level pollution, and reduce CO2 production 10% over the whole economy.
people could keep their gas cars for the long trips.
it seems to me they are making a mistake. they are trying to build an electric car that will do everything a gas car will do. this will take a while and be expensive.
they could put a cheap "city car" on the road today that would cut gas (equivalent)consumption in the cities by fifty percent, as well as ease ground level pollution, and reduce CO2 production 10% over the whole economy.
people could keep their gas cars for the long trips.
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Presidential Candidates Face Off
well, i wondered who the mccain rep was talking to. it is one thing to complain that raising your tax will prevent you from hiring new labor... essentially a lie since the tax comes on income taken out of the business after expenses... and another thing to say that businessmen will just sulk if they can't keep more of what they "earn."
frankly my dear... go ahead and sulk. some better man than you will buy the business, hire new workers, make more money, and pay his taxes and be better off than some fuzzy brained woulda coulda businessman if only those bad ol taxes didn't destroy my initiative.
speaking of fuzzy.. the mccain rep was so incoherent i am not sure he was speaking in complete sentences. another way of lying to people who can't think in complete sentences.
frankly my dear... go ahead and sulk. some better man than you will buy the business, hire new workers, make more money, and pay his taxes and be better off than some fuzzy brained woulda coulda businessman if only those bad ol taxes didn't destroy my initiative.
speaking of fuzzy.. the mccain rep was so incoherent i am not sure he was speaking in complete sentences. another way of lying to people who can't think in complete sentences.
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on Time to Bail?
The "prevent a credit freeze" rationalization for the bailout is not true. The same money could be used to back new loans from ordinary banks to people with good credit, collateral, and honest projects.
Instead we are being told by George "social security is bust" Bush that we have to give the money to the people who made the bad loans, and we have 72 hours to pay up. Or else.
Instead we are being told by George "social security is bust" Bush that we have to give the money to the people who made the bad loans, and we have 72 hours to pay up. Or else.
posted 3 years, 8 months ago
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on Stranded in Oregon
sugest
pick a suitable location. build basically glorified shipping containers without the formaldahyde, insulated and heatable (external boiler, warm water heat), limited hot water per day, lights
and lockable. computer register to weed out destructive people, give them a key. provide community kitchen (served hot meals). evaluate expense of personal shower/toilet vs community.
should be doable for very small price. that way you give the people some privacy, some security, some dignity, and you can manage it properly to even "develop relationships."
now what are the usual bureaucratic reasons for not doing this?
pick a suitable location. build basically glorified shipping containers without the formaldahyde, insulated and heatable (external boiler, warm water heat), limited hot water per day, lights
and lockable. computer register to weed out destructive people, give them a key. provide community kitchen (served hot meals). evaluate expense of personal shower/toilet vs community.
should be doable for very small price. that way you give the people some privacy, some security, some dignity, and you can manage it properly to even "develop relationships."
now what are the usual bureaucratic reasons for not doing this?
posted 4 years ago
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on Primary Conversations: Attorney General
there have been examples of over agressive prosecution, cynical prosecution, and mindless cruelty in punishments. please comment.
posted 4 years, 1 month ago
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