Re: This is what scares me more than anything

So, if everything is unfairly tilted on favor of hybrids and EV, why not juat get one?



On May 6, 2011, at 2:16 PM, "Karl Swenson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe I need *in*sensitivity training.
> 
> The thing is that I see the whole good bad aspect as an unnecessary meme
> that focus on a single element without taking all factors into
> consideration.
> 
> I bought a car that gets great mileage but even though many hybrids average
> less than 5 miles more per gallon (and some actually less) they enjoy a tax
> break and I do not.  They get preferred parking at some malls, and I don't,
> all because of a label, "hybrid".
> 
> EV are growing and there are actually ways they can power their cars free
> and not even pay their own electric bill, which I think is unfair.
> 
> So there is an artificial disparity, and rather than intensify it, Obama's
> suggestion is at least consistent across the board.  I think like you that
> the tax is a rotten idea, but in terms of fairness, at least it is.
> 
> It is not encouraging good or bad behavior, unless the users of hybrid or
> EVs feel they deserve yet another pat on the ass for not buying a
> conventional car.
> 
> That is the result of phrasing this in good/bad terms: an artificially
> driven sense of superiority and entitlement.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 9:45 AM
> To: DADL (off topic)
> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] This is what scares me more than anything
> 
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Deal with the fact that your terms are unfairly pejorative or change 
>> them.
> 
> 
> Signing myself up for sensitivity training. :\
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