I'm saving this GEM, your assertion that oil is renewable, for a special occasion.
It's going to be a lot of fun to destroy it. I want to get all my friends in here to watch first.
Among them you can count a gentleman named Robert Rapier. Look him up.
Not the least bit interested in discussing libertarian politics. Not with you, not with anybody.
Libertarianism, at least as practiced by most right leaning Americans, is just anarchy for wealthy folks.
I understand the wisdom of reining in government overreach where appropriate.
I also understand that most of America's libertarians have some of the most inappropriate concepts of what defines government overreach.
So when it comes to discussing libertarianism with me, save your breath, you'll need it to blow up your date.
Roughly 12 percent of every gallon of gas has taxes attached to it:
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Of course since libertarians do not believe in taxes, I understand the roots of your theory, but it's still just about 12 percent.
Do the math. A forty-five cent discount isn't going to rock the world. And it won't do anything to stop market speculators, whose job it is to bid on oil futures to make a profit, from doing what speculators do. You discount forty-five cents, they see wiggle room to drive it up forty-five cents.
There is a well established formula for gasoline price demand destruction in every market on the planet and the USA is no exception.
When gasoline FIRST went up over four bucks a gallon Americans didn't have fleet fuel economy as good as they do now, so the response was for them to drive less, significantly less. So much less that the speculators actually burned themselves a little.
Bla bla bla anti-government rant. Do you ever have anything else in that Ayn Rand jukebox of yours?
Put on a different record please...or not :soap
What's the right direction, please...enlighten me.
And, as far as them catching on fire, you are required to back that up with some facts, please.
I can't wait to lay waste to them.
95 percent? Uhhhhhh NO, that would be piston engine cars doing that.
Please don't confuse lead-acid or Edison battery tech with current Li-Ion and NiMh tech.(the latter being mostly displaced by the former)
Price of batteries, speed of charging, and both are coming way way down, and if anything it's happening much faster than the price of VCR's.
I actually tried to be conservative. Industry analysts have all made the same prediction as to charge rates and the general consensus is that, in about ten years it will be common to see charging stations which replace 80 to 90% of a car's charge in about as much time as it takes to fill a gas tank. There goes the range anxiety argument.
Too bad. Sucks to be you I guess. You're the one saying you're John Galt.
(Mumble mumble stop the motor of the world mumble mumble Reardon Metal, mumble mumble Galt's Gulch)
Speaking of concepts, Ayn Rand never worked a single labor job in her entire miserable life but for some reason she expected people to swallow a story about a man who invents perpetual motion machines, static electricity generators, magical metals and irritable architects who blow up buildings to stoke their tantrums, and this has become the BIBLE for a generation of angry people who want a scapegoat.
Thus we hear:
So who was it again who had trouble with common core logic and concepts? Your hero engaged in flights of fancy that surpass L. Ron Hubbard for laugh content and, it would be funny if her acolytes weren't working feverishly to make her books a neo-Mein Kampf for the 21st century.
PS: The actual picture of Rand I selected was rather small.
I can't help it the site blew it up in size.
I was actually rather surprised it was that large.
Do I need a tutorial on how to manipulate image sizes on DP?
Point me to it please somebody :newhere: