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..because the electric cars use no gasoline which is heavily taxed to pay for road maintenance.
And new MPG cars use less gas too.
Of course the 35cents a gallon gas tax will stay in place.
This was NOT VOTED ON !
I'll never agree to a government gps unit in my fucking car!!
Another BS tax...IMHO, of course.
The degree that government is getting involved in every aspect of our life is getting pretty sick.
While I'm not disagreeing with the premise of the article, are the things they site even real?
Any time I hear "global warming" is the cause of anything my antenas go up and I automatically wait to be lectured too.
Burning coal is a terrible way to continue to generate electricity.......
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It's kind of a false argument to point out that since out electricity grid is incredibly inefficient and dirty because of legacy, that electric cars are being charged by dirty fuel. The car technology is not the problem, it's the electricity technology.
They've tried to run off as many companies as they could, and now they want to run off the people.
So though I'm not biased towards fossil fuels...I AM biased toward the lifestyle they afford all of us (from the coal mine owner...to the most radical greenie...we all benefit from fossil fuels)...and to limit access to fossil fuels or make them more expensive WITHOUT a replacement...will only hurt our lifestyles. And maybe I'm a little selfish...but I'm totally fine with leaving the planet a little worse off than I found for my grandkids, so that I can enjoy my lifestyle.
there is probably another 100 years (or more even) of fossil fuel reserves in the world...many of those reserves-in this country-are locked up in Wilderness Areas or other federally restricted areas...the largest, easiest to access and cleanest (low ash and low sulfur) coal reserve in the nation was locked up in a national monument by Clinton as the sun was setting on his 2nd term. (Now we are using less clean, harder to access (more expensive) coal to power our country.
As soon as that fossil fuel replacement is ready to roll...I'll get on board with closing coal minds, and oil fields...but until then, the greenies and EPA need to get out of the way so our society can function.
Saving the environment will eventually control WHAT we drive, WHERE we drive, and HOW MUCH we drive...then where we can live...where we can go on vacation...how hot/cool we can keep our homes...and on and on.
That isn't fear mongering or a tin foil hat conspiracy...its happening right before our eyes.
I'm from a coal mining family (grandfathers, dad, many uncles all made a living in the coal mines...its down to one brother that currently mines coal)...at least in Utah, the only coal mines left are mines that have contracts with companies in CHINA! (China doesn't care about the environment or climate change) All the local mines that were selling domestically have (or will be shortly) closing.
And VERY few mines are being opened to get at remaining reserves.
My brother has been mining for 5 years (he's 27)...his mine has an estimated 25 years of reserves, and another 19 years left on a contract with a company from China...I told him he'd better save his money, because when that contract is up, his mine will be shutting down, and he'll need to find another career.
Ignoring it or being reasonable about it? A gasoline only powered Honda Civic driving through downtown Los Angeles will actually have cleaner air coming out the tailpipe that going in the intake. I didn't check Snopes by the way.
however, I do appreciate the technology and it all has to start somewhere.. We are getting the ball rolling,
I would like to see hydrogen vehicles..
I can appreciate the heritage and pride associated with mining, but it's a tough lifestyle choice for sure. The record with safety, health and pensions has not been good. They have a habit of selling off companies and erasing pensions for people that worked their asses off for a long time. Maybe it's not as bad in Utah as it is in WV and Appalachia.
And when we talk about cheap coal-fired power, the medical costs and environmental price we pay is left out. Nothing like a mountaintop removal project to turn a mountain into a wasteland.
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