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I also couldn't get home if I did drive it to work. They should have changed the name from EV-1 to Pelosi. That describes it in a nutshell: very expensive and useless. But it did save gas and, if used in my situation, could have provided many opportunities for long walks. And a few million of them might have saved some gas.
But every time Americans do what they are asked to do, like save gas, a new tax arises. Here in North Carolina our fully Democrat state government is considering a mileage tax. Why? Well, because we did as we were asked to do and cut down our driving. This reduced the funds available for mass transit (hidden in a roads fund). So now when we get our vehicles inspected the mileage from the previous year will be recorded and a per-mile tax will be assessed.
For those of you thinking of moving here, everything in North
Carolina that moves is taxed and so are most things that don't,
and often twice. This is a state that Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid
would feel very comfortable in. Like California, the government
gives you a small allowance and takes the rest. I'm
leaving.
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina
What is the true cost of using oil as a fuel, the price at the pump? Might you also consider the other costs of gasoline?
Ninety billion in subsidies to the oil companies such as no royalties for drilling in U.S. territorial waters? A nine billion dollar a week war in Iraq? Billions spent protecting oil fields in the Persian Gulf, in fact more money spent protecting the oil than the value of the oil imported? The billions in health care costs due to lung disease, and related illnesses? The many billions in cost of CO2 emissions to the environment, and the financial losses due to extreme climate conditions as a result of excessive carbon emissions?
So if you look at the economics of oil, it really doesn't make
much sense. We could have used the 700 billion we gave to hostile
foreign governments in oil exports last year to completely
convert our economy to run on renewable energy and electric
cars, and create a sustainable energy future for us and our
children.
-- Peter Oppewall
Editor, EVtransPortal.com
THE PISCOPO EFFECT
Re: John C.
Wohlstetter's
Awaiting Obama: Can "The One" Learn From "The Voice"?:
Sinatra was a man with a wonderful singing
voice, and the ability to use it. But I first knew him as a
celebrity icon and not a singer, and that celebrity icon came
across as an arrogant blowhard who was more likely to be the butt
of jokes than the idol of millions.
It took me years to get past that to appreciate his greatness --
my music collection has very little Sinatra in it even now --
and, I imagine, many others cannot get past it yet.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral,
Florida
YOU CAN KICK HIM OUT, BUT HE'LL BE BACK
Re: Chris Reed's Benedict Arnold:
How can we kick this Hollywood clown out of our party? Is there
any precedent for doing so? He is a "Republican" by name
only.
-- Chuck Volker
Liberty Corner, New Jersey
Republicans, this is what happens when you compromise your
principles: everyone is angry at you.
-- P. Aaron Jones
The Democrats say Obamacare opponents are a mob. Are they right?
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ruth| 1.7.09 @ 6:32AM
There really was no other viable choice. Arnold was just the lesser of two evils.
Don Werenko| 1.7.09 @ 9:08AM
RE: Molyneaux's comments in his letter about liberals having taken over NC. This was very predictable in the mid to late 1990's when many, many people moved to the state from NY and NJ and the whole northeast, where having wrecked their respective states with liberalism, they started on the same downward path in NC. I am firmly convinced that most liberals will never learn. We must begin in our school system starting at grade one if our country is to survive. I pray our downward spiral is not irreversable.
Daddio| 1.7.09 @ 9:13AM
All great nations come to an end. Usually done in from within rather than without. I see no reason to doubt we will end any differently.
Appleby| 1.7.09 @ 9:38AM
We have available here in Toronto a very nice, cheap (relatively), easy to park and no-licence-required electric scooter similar to the Vespa, which would be ideal to scoot around our end of Toronto where virtually everybody walks to where we want to go.
The difficulty is this: almost everyone in our neighbourhood lives in a high-rise. There is nowhere to plug these scooters in.
A second difficulty which is at present preventing the electric car from being sold here in our end of Kanukistan is that our Greenie Socialist Government has promised to close down all coal-fired plants next year, which means we wouldn't even have enough power to keep the lights on, much less run 300,000 plug-in cars and 1,000,000 plug-in scooters.
Tom Pedersen| 1.7.09 @ 12:09PM
As much as I believe Burris is a bad appointment, I do think that his is a legal appointment and that he should be sworn in and take the office. Too many of us make the emotional error of mixing up right and wrong with legal and illegal. This is true in polics generally...politics is often immoral, dirty and dispicable. Because these are law makers, they are careful to protect their sleeze from being illegal. Should we want to change that, we will have to get a set of steel ones and get to work...or pass a constitutional amendment to limit terms of office. After all, a new politician cannot steal as efficiently as an experienced one.
Alan Brooks| 1.7.09 @ 7:17PM
Term Limits
by George F. Will
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