Big Cars are killing Americans
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Steppenwolfe
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Yes... I HOPE... But that doesn't mean another 100 years of ICE's guzzling up valuable resources and polluting the world past what we already have. Change has always been the future, we just can't see it because we are stuck in today. The Freedom to live a healthy, productive, and contented life is foremost an American ideal; let's not squash that because some can't see past a gas pump...
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I think ICE vehicles have been cleaned up remarkably well in the last 40 years and bet they could be cleaned up even more.
No sense giving more power to China when our country is already much cleaner than theirs only to compete in the EV markets with them.
We will lose badly. They own most all the electronics tech and REMs.
No sense giving more power to China when our country is already much cleaner than theirs only to compete in the EV markets with them.
We will lose badly. They own most all the electronics tech and REMs.
fishdrivel
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I can see past the gas pump.
I do not see running our vehicles on flashlight batteries even if we find out what to do with dead batteries.
I cannot see running power generation plants off the fossil fuels to avoid burning them in our vehicles.
I do see a future in extracting hydrogen from methane so we don't have to burn methane in our power plants.
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I think the biggest problem with our government (at all levels) is that the only qualification for office is to get elected. You don't have to know anything about science, medicine, law, ethics, history, construction, government or even basic logic - all you have to do is get elected and then you get to run other people's lives and often make them miserable.
Here's a wonderful example - local government won't issue a permit for anything bigger than a single family home unless a utilities schematic is submitted, per ordinance blah blah blah. Power company has a policy that they don't do schematics unless a permit has been issued. Statewide power company isn't about to change their policy for one municipality, the municipality hides behind "that's the code". Catch 22, and everyone complains of lack of development here.
There are almost NO responsible jobs anyone can get without at least SOME training. You'd want your doctor to have a medical degree, your lawyer to have a law degree, your airline pilot to have a pilot certificate (and at least have an idea of which end of the airplane is the front), your electrician to have at least some familiarity with the NEC so your house doesn't burn down, but as I said, the ONLY qualification to run the government is to get yourself elected.
My favorite was an unsuccessful mayoral candidate a few towns away who claimed she had a university degree. Turns out the university was MacDonald's University . . . she had been trained to be a burger flipper. The course was something like a week long. (Hey, this stuff is REALLY DIFFICULT, dude, you do know there are TWO sides to a burger patty, right?) Other, more successful candidates, evidently hide their ignorance more effectively.
Even staff at local government needs certification and qualifications, while the elected officials, who DIRECT the staff, need nothing at all, and on the face of the evidence, some of them would have a difficult time figuring out how to pour **** out of a boot, but in many cases that doesn't seem to be a possibility.
We need to stop electing incompetent, unqualified people. We need to establish minimum standards for the people we elect to office - at ALL levels. If we don't (and doing it is going to be a MAJOR fight) we are just going to get more of the same bad, incompetent, unresponsive government we have had so much of in the past and have so much of now. We need to regulate the regulators because at this point, they answer to nobody except themselves or to the people who have bought them.
(Wonderful political cartoon from a few years back - two Sheiks walking past the Capitol Building in DC, caption is "They have honest politicians here, when you buy one, they stay bought.")
Happy new year anyway, and I refuse to give up!
Best Regards,
Mike/Florida
Here's a wonderful example - local government won't issue a permit for anything bigger than a single family home unless a utilities schematic is submitted, per ordinance blah blah blah. Power company has a policy that they don't do schematics unless a permit has been issued. Statewide power company isn't about to change their policy for one municipality, the municipality hides behind "that's the code". Catch 22, and everyone complains of lack of development here.
There are almost NO responsible jobs anyone can get without at least SOME training. You'd want your doctor to have a medical degree, your lawyer to have a law degree, your airline pilot to have a pilot certificate (and at least have an idea of which end of the airplane is the front), your electrician to have at least some familiarity with the NEC so your house doesn't burn down, but as I said, the ONLY qualification to run the government is to get yourself elected.
My favorite was an unsuccessful mayoral candidate a few towns away who claimed she had a university degree. Turns out the university was MacDonald's University . . . she had been trained to be a burger flipper. The course was something like a week long. (Hey, this stuff is REALLY DIFFICULT, dude, you do know there are TWO sides to a burger patty, right?) Other, more successful candidates, evidently hide their ignorance more effectively.
Even staff at local government needs certification and qualifications, while the elected officials, who DIRECT the staff, need nothing at all, and on the face of the evidence, some of them would have a difficult time figuring out how to pour **** out of a boot, but in many cases that doesn't seem to be a possibility.
We need to stop electing incompetent, unqualified people. We need to establish minimum standards for the people we elect to office - at ALL levels. If we don't (and doing it is going to be a MAJOR fight) we are just going to get more of the same bad, incompetent, unresponsive government we have had so much of in the past and have so much of now. We need to regulate the regulators because at this point, they answer to nobody except themselves or to the people who have bought them.
(Wonderful political cartoon from a few years back - two Sheiks walking past the Capitol Building in DC, caption is "They have honest politicians here, when you buy one, they stay bought.")
Happy new year anyway, and I refuse to give up!
Best Regards,
Mike/Florida
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Nukes is the answer on power plants. We can build them all with American labor and technology. We dont need no stupid Chinese solar panels or windmills For power plants
Tens of Thousands of great paying, high tech American jobs just sitting there for the taking. And a future of very low emissions.
Tens of Thousands of great paying, high tech American jobs just sitting there for the taking. And a future of very low emissions.
fishdrivel
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Nuclear pickups sounds great. You can put the spent fuel rods in the bed and just park the truck in San Diego. When it gets stolen, no more fuel rod disposal problem!
As I have mentioned here before, We have several vehicles, Most are what many people would consider "large". These days I'm more concerned with the comfort of the vehicle that I'm driving. Im also "large" 6-3 ish and 215 ish depending on what I ate for dinner..maybe more. Im just uncomfortable in compact cars. I don't like when my elbows are jammed against the door panel and the other one is 1/2 way into the passenger side of the car. My daily driver ( work truck ) is usually a 4x4 Sprinter van. Its big..and comfortable..for a van, Gets 19-20 mpg thats respectable.
At the end of the day after work..Im usually sore and if I go back out..Im looking for something I can stretch out in and enjoy a drive in a big comfy seat.
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