* Posts by LVTaxman

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Tesla share crash amid Republican bid to kill off electric car tax break

LVTaxman

Musk is a billionaire only due to the largess of the American Taxpayer. His companies since the PayPal sale have not been profitable. If EVs were so wonderful, people would not need the tax credit bribe to purchase them.

Considering EVs will be obsolete due to fuel cells technology before we can figure out a safe way to dispose of the batteries, we shouldn't need the tax credits for incentives.

Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest ever recorded, global warming is not eroding it'

LVTaxman

Re: That was bizarre.

Lewis makes a valid point. A study showed if the US went to zero emissions, the US reductions in emissions would be replaced by China and India within six years. The International Energy Agency estimated it would take $45 Trillion to reduce emissions to 50% by 2050 (not stop emissions, just reduce them). That is $45 Trillion that could be used to build infrastructure in third world countries to help them out of poverty. That is also $45 Trillion that would be pulled from industrialized countries, stagnating growth and increasing costs and poverty to the first world middle class.

LVTaxman

Re: Popular Reporting and Scientific Studies: Are They Incompatible?

Forbes debunked the 97% number over a year ago. Read the articles.

LVTaxman

Re: *cough*

You may want to check out the skepticism in the British press and review the studies by the Danes and Russians that believe there will be a cooling period due to reduced solar activity through at least 2035. Maybe more than the US and Australians would prefer real replicable research instead of the hysteria pushed by the IPCC, Al Gore, East Anglia and Mann.