"whoyakidding's ghost" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 08:53:02 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:31:23 -0400, "Existential Angst"
wrote:

Taxing electricity to pay for road repairs, as Tom suggested, is not
going to happen. If electric vehicles proliferate, I don't doubt
they'll tax the vehicles and/or miles travelled -- and they should.
That's what Jim's references are about.

But Tom's suggestion that governments will tax electricity to pay for
roads is just plain paranoia.

He's not really worried about. It's merely another of those stupid
excuses tossed out by the ignorati who are terrified of change. Same
with "PV takes more energy to produce than it will ever generate." You
can bet he believes as strongly in that one as he does in talking
snakes.

I, of course, didn't say that. I said that PVs take a LOT of energy to
produce, AND the process is one of filthiest industrial processes on the
planet.
They MAY take so much energy, be so environmentally costly to produce that
the net net net ROI is worse than people think, but I don't know for sure.
Why don't YOU tell us??

But it don't matter. Your ROI on yer Volt is 75+++ years, and your ROI on
PVs will be another 30 years. Being a dumb****, you don't realize that PVs
don't last forever, either.


Taxation idn't rocket science.... it's proctological science.

What's your goal for the rest of your life, to set a record for
milking a single lame premise? I'll donate the cost of a second joke
if you agree to use it.

Apt metaphors are apt metaphors. The fact that you can't understand them is
because of the pounding your brain takes from all the ass****ings you
believe are colonoscopies. GM ass****s you, and you imagine they're in
white coats with stethoscopes, and whip out your checkbook.

Tell you what.
I'll donate to a team with some jaws-of-life to do the ole heave-ho to try
to pull out dat Status Quo dick that's shoved up to your medulla oblongata.
Or at least dislodge some, to relieve the pressure. Then you might gain
some clarity.... temporarily.
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EA