The bulldozer reference is killdozer and not the hundreds of us made bulldozers being used to squish Palestinian children in Gaza? Do better, you neoliberal apologist cunce.
Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Shit. I worked to help get Energy Star get going (the agency actually spells the name in all caps). The hours and hours of developing the program and the hours spent testing it and measuring the program’s effectiveness and adjusting this and tweaking that. Gone.
Well, the science still stands and the program can be restarted at a later date, but, fuck, what a waste. Except for President Dumbass and his all-dumbshit choir, people LOVE Energy Star. It helps manufacturers SELL appliances. Plus it serves as a mark of quality. And, of course, consumers like it because it saves money and some people still give a shit about saving energy for altruistic purposes.
So much destruction, and for…nothing. Everybody suffers except the Don. I guess that’s the administration’s MO.
A gas tax for road maintenance might have made sense when all cars were pretty much the same and uses much more fuel, but that's not the case now. The most fair method would be to tax vehicles by weight and annual mileage since that is what causes the wear on the roads. Of course, all the toxic wingers with tiny dicks and giant wankpanzers will scream about how unfair that is.
Fun fact: wear on the road is not linear, but is proportional to the 4th power of the weight (actually the loading per square inch, so tire size and number has an effect). In other words, doubling the weight of a vehicle increases the road wear by 16 times. The average weight of a large SUV is about double the weight of a compact and should be taxed accordingly.
Ok, shoot me for this. The state legislature just upped the gas tax again. I believe it is one of the highest in the US.
I don't think it's a good idea. I also don't think over-taxing EVs is good.
A high gas tax taxes people who don't have access to decent public transportation. That would be poor communities. A lot of people can't afford to buy a new car. Taxing them doesn't solve our pollution problem.
In order to buy an EV, you need to be able to afford the down payment. If you can't save money, you are stuck.
I absolutely LOVE that my appliances use less water and energy than previous models. No one in America was begging for Trump to increase our utility bills. Only the fossil fuel lobby wants this terrible shit.
These short sighted knuckleheads fail to see that our National Park System brings (or used to bring) lots of well-heeled tourists from other countries to spend moola here every year. Ugh.
My 1966 Ford Fairlane proudly got 14 miles per gallon (I measured) so the highway trust fund could be solvent back then, and that was far from being the worst gas guzzler. But of course you could get gas for 39 cents a gallon back then.
Oh, this government would be fine with drilling in an active volcano, but fortunately most oil and gas exploration companies are a bit brighter than this administration's leadership all put together (not a real high bar that, I know) so they probably would recognize it as a bad idea.
Why can we not drill on active volcanoes? What makes them so sacrosanct? Lot of valuable minerals in flowing lava; we’ll import foreign labor to breathe the toxic fumes then export them to torture camps. The perfect capitalist caper.
Essentially, he's an old man who has nostalgia for his "glory days", the 70s and early 80s, when the air was horrible the streets were dirty and an asshole rich kid could lord over the masses just by having more money
The bulldozer reference is killdozer and not the hundreds of us made bulldozers being used to squish Palestinian children in Gaza? Do better, you neoliberal apologist cunce.
Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
Shit. I worked to help get Energy Star get going (the agency actually spells the name in all caps). The hours and hours of developing the program and the hours spent testing it and measuring the program’s effectiveness and adjusting this and tweaking that. Gone.
Well, the science still stands and the program can be restarted at a later date, but, fuck, what a waste. Except for President Dumbass and his all-dumbshit choir, people LOVE Energy Star. It helps manufacturers SELL appliances. Plus it serves as a mark of quality. And, of course, consumers like it because it saves money and some people still give a shit about saving energy for altruistic purposes.
So much destruction, and for…nothing. Everybody suffers except the Don. I guess that’s the administration’s MO.
Let’s quit fucking around, Karma Wheel.
Ta, Dok. This maladministration is a plague upon the world.
A gas tax for road maintenance might have made sense when all cars were pretty much the same and uses much more fuel, but that's not the case now. The most fair method would be to tax vehicles by weight and annual mileage since that is what causes the wear on the roads. Of course, all the toxic wingers with tiny dicks and giant wankpanzers will scream about how unfair that is.
Fun fact: wear on the road is not linear, but is proportional to the 4th power of the weight (actually the loading per square inch, so tire size and number has an effect). In other words, doubling the weight of a vehicle increases the road wear by 16 times. The average weight of a large SUV is about double the weight of a compact and should be taxed accordingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
And semis. They do 80,% of the damage
Ok, shoot me for this. The state legislature just upped the gas tax again. I believe it is one of the highest in the US.
I don't think it's a good idea. I also don't think over-taxing EVs is good.
A high gas tax taxes people who don't have access to decent public transportation. That would be poor communities. A lot of people can't afford to buy a new car. Taxing them doesn't solve our pollution problem.
In order to buy an EV, you need to be able to afford the down payment. If you can't save money, you are stuck.
I’m surprised he’s not banning LED lightbulbs.
He's working to bring back incandescent bulbs. He signed a stupid executive order on 1/25 to protect "freedom to choose light bulbs".
Yet.
I absolutely LOVE that my appliances use less water and energy than previous models. No one in America was begging for Trump to increase our utility bills. Only the fossil fuel lobby wants this terrible shit.
Sir is Pro-Blindness!
I know! Add a small gas generator (I mean tiny) that can be used to charge the 12v battery on an EV.
Presto, it's a gas powered car, not subject to the new fees.
Come on car makers, figure this shit out, do I have to do everything?
My Chevy Volt has a small 4 cylinder motor along with the electric motor. It charges the 48v battery (to a degree) while driving.
So I'd better not have to pay extra!
https://youtu.be/_btZbsZY31s?feature=shared
These short sighted knuckleheads fail to see that our National Park System brings (or used to bring) lots of well-heeled tourists from other countries to spend moola here every year. Ugh.
My 1966 Ford Fairlane proudly got 14 miles per gallon (I measured) so the highway trust fund could be solvent back then, and that was far from being the worst gas guzzler. But of course you could get gas for 39 cents a gallon back then.
Oh, this government would be fine with drilling in an active volcano, but fortunately most oil and gas exploration companies are a bit brighter than this administration's leadership all put together (not a real high bar that, I know) so they probably would recognize it as a bad idea.
Why can we not drill on active volcanoes? What makes them so sacrosanct? Lot of valuable minerals in flowing lava; we’ll import foreign labor to breathe the toxic fumes then export them to torture camps. The perfect capitalist caper.
The water is too expensive.
But you see, if we eliminate the Energy Star program, we save $32 million on top of the $40 million we never saved!
Essentially, he's an old man who has nostalgia for his "glory days", the 70s and early 80s, when the air was horrible the streets were dirty and an asshole rich kid could lord over the masses just by having more money