Stole the following from Daily Pundit.
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Crony capitalism? Nah. Couldn’t be. What’s more, besides being cheaper, the pipeline would be much better for the environment, since oil flowing through the pipeline wouldn’t produce as much carbon as the locomotives used to pull those oil cars. Remember the recent train derailment in West Virginia when all of the oil cars went off the tracks? Pipelines don’t derail. You environmental wackos opposing the pipeline are for damaging the economy but you are too fucking stupid to realize that. You guys are booger eatin’ moh-rons.
Speaking of booger eatin’ moh-rons, there was an article in this morning’s Atlanta Urinal and Constipation about charging owners of electric cars fees to help fund transportation in Georgia. These smug bastards don’t pay gas taxes so essentially they are using the roads in Georgia for free. They highlighted one couple who own two Nissan Leafs. They are squealing like stuck pigs about maybe having to pay $200 bucks a year per car. This is after the tax credits they receive for owning these two cars, or in their case, leasing them. The husband came out with the line that they are “saving the environment” by driving these cars. Yeah. That magic electricity they use just comes out of the wall. This dipstick doesn’t realize that the majority of the electricity produced in Georgia is from coal fired plants, so his car isn’t really saving the environment. What this booger eatin’ moh-ron also doesn’t realize is how bad the battery in his car is for the environment. It requires rare earth metals from China. Chinese rare earth metal mines are environment disasters. He and his wife are doing far more damage to the environent that they realize, but they live in a fantasy land where electricity is produced fron unicorn farts and rare earth metals ljust lie on the ground and can easily be picked up. You just know that these two dunderheads voted for Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade.
Let’s not forget about the windmills which kill more eagles than DDT ever did.
Every time I see something like this, the first question I ask is who benefits from the change or keeping the status quo.
Case in point…the tax code could be simplified and made revenue neutral practically overnight.
Who would benefit from the change?…virtually every person in the USA who files a tax return.
Who benefits from the status quo?…lawyers, tax law firms, big tax preparer firms, tax prep software mfgrs, and an incredibly employee bloated IRS.
Also large companies who can afford to buy a few politicians to put a loophole in the tax system.
With respect to electric cars, I hold some slight ambivalence.
I agree with Denny these cars aren’t “green”, at least not at this point. I look at the natural (unsubsidized) price. If a car would naturally sell for $40,000 or $100,000, then that’s a gauge of how many resources went into manufacturing it. So, out the gate, an electric car is vastly “brown-er” than a decent economy car. Even if the electric car burned no gas at all, it couldn’t close that gap in its lifetime.
Maybe this will change as economies and technology improves. Maybe this idiocy of today is a necessary stepping stone. I’m skeptical, but it’s possible. In the meantime, as a practical matter, the ordinary working guy with a clunker is subsidizing toys for rich yuppies. And those rich yuppies lord it over the rest of us as if they were our saviors and we’re a bunch of dumb slobs. And we are a bunch of dumb slobs for putting up with it.
But the point I started to make was that we enticed people to buy those electric cars by promising them goodies like freedom from gas taxes. We put the people’s money on the table and urged them to rob us blind. And when they’ve made the commitment, we finally realize that, hey, these people aren’t paying gas taxes. Duhhh! So we move to change the rules to punish the people who did the stuff we yesterday rewarded them to do. Which shows how stupid and convoluted and inconsistent we are. How we think we can micromanage the people, and endlessly fine-tune our micromanagement until the people are perfect. We’re not perfect yet, but I’m sure just another couple of regulations will do it…
I believe that Oregon is the first of many states (it’s even bein’ talked about at the national level) that wants to put a device on all cars to measure the number of miles one travels in a year so taxes can be collected from those who use little or no gas, but still cause wear on the roads. One plan is to send you a bill, another would actually have computers track how many miles you’ve gone since your last fill up, and adjust the price-per-gallon to reflect how much your “fair share” would be.
I don’t know how they’d collect from those passin’ through, but maybe there’d be a border station whenever entering or leaving the state where they’d stick a device on your car and remove it. How about that? No tracker and you can’t get fuel. How do you get gas for a chain saw, boat or lawn mower? Of course they wouldn’t think of usin’ that info to track your movements, or tell you that their computer isn’t pickin’ up what you’re transmitting and you therefore won’t be allowed to travel anywhere else ’til they can “communicate” with the device in your car. Nah, the state would never want to restrict your movements, unless you were unable to pay the appropriate fees.
Just remember, it’s all for the kids and the environment.
Couple of points: 1) another oil train derailed in Illinois today and is burning
2) a few years ago consumer report had an article showing a hummer was more energy efficient than a Prius all in.
3) that additional transport cost is reflected in reduced oil price at the wellhead, meaning the land owner gets less royalty from production on his land, the state collects less money in taxes and 4) the oil company, who took the risk and spent their dollars to drill the well, get a lower return for that investment. Of courses, these dollars then get transferred to Buffet and democrats. Great country!
Money talks.., bullshit walks. Perfect case in point. Also shows just how corrupt the Democrat party really and truly is.
http://www.kcrg.com/bnsf-train-derails-south-of-galena-2015…
According to this article even Buffet wants the Keystone Pipeline built.
http://conservativetribune.com/buffett-build-keystone-pipeline/
In reading all the negative points against moving oil by rail and in pipelines, and very few for these, I have decided that the anti-everything enviro-nazis have, changed the definition of “if” to measn”absolutely will”.
Fact (according to enviro-nazis): Every single oil train and coal train will derail, spilling the contents of every car into the rivers, catch fire and burn the entire region into cinders. And if those oil and coal trains don’t derail, they will see to it that they actually do derail.
Fact (according to the enviro-nazis): The Keystone pipeline will damage the entire areal for miles and miles around the pipeline’s right-of-way, thereby rendering it unfit for human and animal life until the year 4000, if not longer.
Fact (according to the enviro-nazis): AlGore is absolutely right about all thins global warming, global cooling, that AlGore is perfectly sane and he is the be-all, know-all, expert ons anything he is blathering about.
I frimly believe that the only reason the Ayatollah Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline is because the Saudis and other Mideastern oil producing countries are giving him a large kick back fr keeping their oil coming to the U.S. in place of our home grown oil. The question here is how much in actual dollars.