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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 81586" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Batteries May Become ObsoleteWhile it doesn&#039;t make me chuckle, I find it interesting how much taxation (like on petrol) that you will tolerate from your elected government. You should be asking why do you pay so much? What do you get back for all that taxation? Smaller slower cars? Nobody should waste energy, but we are not about to run out, so free market forces can more efficiently manage how to use finite resources. Global warming is a separate situation to inspect, and despite not participating in all the arm waving our shift to the cheaper NG (from coal) has reduced our emissions more than any artificial program of carbon credits.&nbsp; Our politicians are serial crisis mongers, and before we had global warming, it was global cooling. At the moment they are crying that the sky is falling over a rounding error in budget growth. It is getting sad to watch, but the public gets the government that they tolerate. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 81586, member: 126"] Re: Batteries May Become Obsolete While it doesn't make me chuckle, I find it interesting how much taxation (like on petrol) that you will tolerate from your elected government. You should be asking why do you pay so much? What do you get back for all that taxation? Smaller slower cars? Nobody should waste energy, but we are not about to run out, so free market forces can more efficiently manage how to use finite resources. Global warming is a separate situation to inspect, and despite not participating in all the arm waving our shift to the cheaper NG (from coal) has reduced our emissions more than any artificial program of carbon credits. Our politicians are serial crisis mongers, and before we had global warming, it was global cooling. At the moment they are crying that the sky is falling over a rounding error in budget growth. It is getting sad to watch, but the public gets the government that they tolerate. JR [/QUOTE]

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