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RE: Anything Tesla CAN'T do?
By Labotomizer on 8/20/2013 8:20:11 PM , Rating: 2
You make some valid points and you're right, I went way off topic. You start rambling after 3 weeks+ without a day off.

But to your points, you're right. I'm talking road legal vehicles. My problem is the way the government is going about driving alternatives to fossil fuels, not that fossil fuels shouldn't be phased out as the ultimate goal. Setting arbitrary CAFE standards doesn't help. It drives up the price of the cars. The problem is that it's also keeping the price of hybrids high since you typically pay more than a traditional ICE vehicle. This isn't terribly useful. As long as driving a traditional gas powered car is cheaper the problem won't go away. And by increasing gas mileage you lower demand and lowering demand keeps gas prices flat. When gas is high enough that people really want to move to alternatives then the industry will provide. There are ways for the government to help accomplish this but it's also something I'm not sure I agree with. I don't know of an easy answer.

And yes, the government absolutely has to define what marriage is. But the arguments against gay marriage stem from two lines of thinking. One is that it's wrong according to the Bible, which is kind of a problem when it's a reason to right government policy. The other is that "marriage has always been defined as a man and a woman". Which holds little more merit than the prior argument. For a long time it was always that "black people aren't actually people". And countless other injustices based on race, sex, religion, etc. This is no different.

I'm not saying the government is trying to dictate to church that they should allow it but in a lot of cases the same argument for same sex marriage, and in states where it is legal, is they're upset their church doesn't recognize that. That's not up to the government nor should it be. It's much like the suit against a Catholic university because their health insurance didn't cover birth control. It's a private institution with their own beliefs, you don't have to follow them but don't expect the government to step in and change them either. It's stupid.

I just find everything very hypocritical and I'm tired of both sides of political arguments. Everyone wants the government to back off something and enforce something else. And often times for all the wrong reasons. I was just ranting in my earlier post. I suppose this wasn't much better though...

