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ParticipantCelebrating: only in the context of wrecking industries based on inefficient and polluting extraction of oil. If we’re going to have pollution from oil extraction, better it be in Saudi, not in North America, and best to use oil that flows easily vs needing heroic (and more polluting) means to extract.
ParticipantDid I say that they were?
Participantfossil fuel won’t stay cheap forever. Either FCV won’t get cheap and eventually, we’ll run out of fossil fuel in 100 years and it’ll get more expensive than FCV or FCV will get cheaper through technology. Regardless of how it happen, I don’t care. I would gladly use ICE cars as long as it’s the cheapest solutions. I could careless about the greeny. They can spend their own money.
People like you are why civilized countries tax gasoline at 300% or more of actual cost. The Earth doesn’t have another 100 years of us vomiting CO2 into the atmosphere. And until we find another home, it doesn’t behoove us to crap where we sleep.
ParticipantWe’ll never have FCV if fossil fools and fossil farts remain cheap.
ParticipantSolyndra was one company out of many. Not all investments pan out — that’s life.
ParticipantIt never ceases to amaze me that these days, more Americans are interested in seeing other people fail then they are interested in seeing people succeed… Talk about the total Schadenfreude mentality that if I can’t have it better, then neither can you…
Envy-fluenza strikes again..
Wrong: I wish Elon Musk with Tesla, Lockheed with their fusion reactor project, and Sunpower with their high efficiency solar panels all of the luck in the world. Same to anyone building hydro power projects where they make sense and producers of modern fission reactor tech.
I just happen to think that the frack industry, as has existed for the last 5-10 years is an insanely asinine idea. And that oil as energy should have been left in the last century.
ParticipantHopefully, this is just the beginning. We need oil stocks to do down another 50% and massive layoffs in the frack industry in the US. Better the Saudis poison their own environment than we do.
Meanwhile, we should be working on mandating alternate energy technologies, so when Saudi oil does run out (and kick that third-rate country back to the Stone Age), we’ll be set without needing to poison ourselves.
ParticipantBecause the party of Dubya Bush and backwoods fundie Christianity isn’t a viable alternative?
Also, the majority of Jews in the US are urban or semi-urban. Repubs tend to vote against things that are good for urban areas, like public education funding, transport/infrastructure, etc.
ParticipantWait till next month when the sheepsumers will be selling last year’s crapola on Craigslist to pick up this year’s credit-card tab 🙂
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BAAAAH! HUMBUG!
ParticipantUnless you live in very specific parts of SD County, you’ll still need a car for things other than commuting.
Though I do know someone who got away with it for a year or two in Carlsbad, since work, grocery stores, etc were within biking distance of her apartment, and she could take the commuter train+bus to the airport when she wanted to get out of town. (She has family in NY and abroad as well.)
ParticipantFlyerInHI:
No asset test, just an income test if applying through an exchange. Asset test exists for other means of applying. Eligibility is as follows via an exchange:
0-100% of poverty level – Medicaid only
100-x% of poverty level – Medicaid only (if state expanded the program). Or no insurance otherwise.
x-400% of poverty level – private insurance with subsidy
400+% of poverty level – private ins, no subsidyI think x is something like 125%.
ParticipantI can’t find the cite right now, but the website apparently told him that he was only eligible for insurance via Medicaid, due to his income being below x% of the Fed poverty level.
ParticipantI think that you’re wrong about the Medicaid card. As far as I know medicaid is asset based.
Maybe he got an Obama care card.
There’s no such thing as an “Obama care card.” You either have a private insurance card for insurance bought through an exchange, or you have a Medicaid card below a certain % of Federal poverty level. It’s either 100% or a higher % depending on whether the state has expanded Medicaid.
There’s no asset test for any type of “Obamacare”, which is sort of the point.
ParticipantPublic universities were cheaper then as compared to incomes. At least partially due to (zOMFG!) … taxpayer support.
Was your stepfather a single parent when he was going to school? Were your cow-orkers single parents, or did they have a spouse to share responsibilities with?
Also, during your stepfather’s time, it was easier to get a decent job without a college degree in the first place. He was probably a union factory worker at Rockwell, not a Mickey Dee’s fry cook.
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