http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/ Engadget Comments for US alliance to wrestle electric car batteries away from Asia http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 20th 2008 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/



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You should see Joystiq's default avatars: http://www.joystiq.com/

It's popular to copy the Mario-esque feeling of them. A lot of people do it with different characters and different Marios.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
Tapping all of our oil resources instead of letting these granola hippies have their way will make it affordable for all and get us through for enough time to research something more efficient.

I would go for the whole hybrid thing if we were actually building nuclear power generators so power was guaranteed to be cheap.

But here in Oregon when we put idiots like Culongosky in charge who built a solar highway that cost over 60 cents per KW/h I don't see nuclear power (technology) working out...]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
Sometimes financial-cost isn't the greatest factor.]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
Every major national scientific academy and organization in the world supports the vast, overwhelming consensus that climate change is happening, and has a predominantly anthropogenic origin from releasing enormous quantities of C02 in the atmosphere. 99 out of 100 climate scientists agree with that consensus view. The goddamn glaciers and ice sheets all around the world are losing billions of tons of ice each year and you can stand there and claim climate change doesn't exist??

My god, please go back and get your highschool diploma, or at least stay out of politics and civil society, and let the adults make the decisions. And lastly, please do not reproduce. We do not need someone with your fringe attitude in the gene pool.]]>Dec 19th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 20th 2008 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
It's really not a hard decision for businesses - expand your business in the US at 35% corporation tax or expand your business in somewhere like Ireland at 12.5%. Hmm, which will make most profit while minimising risk? Ireland it is then! Things will only get worse when Obama comes in since he plans to raise corporation tax even higher sending more investment and more jobs abroad. I can't imagine how he things raising corporation tax will rejuvenate the economy. Seems more likely to me that he'll finish off what's left.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
Everything in moderation. Yin and Yang. Ride the line. etc,... Get it?]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
Simple answer, cut the corporate tax AND the loopholes. Problem solved, checkpoint met.]]>Dec 19th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/Dec 19th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/us-alliance-hopes-to-wrestle-electric-car-batteries-away-from-as/
- "With such high risk it's little wonder people prefer to invest in lower tax economies and send jobs abroad that could have gone to US workers."

What? Have you seen the GDP of the United States? We have led the WORLD in corporate investment and business growth for decades! The outsourcing of manufacturing has NOTHING TO DO WITH TAX RATES you idiot! It is basic economics! Manufacturing's large labor requirements provide an incentive to build plants in developing countries with cheap labor costs, where workers are paid little to work long hours and with no form of benefits or access to organized labor unions.

- "with corporation tax so high the odds are stacked against you since you lose 100% if you you make a loss but only take 65% if you make a profit."

That is complete nonsense, and doesn't reflect reality. First of all, the rules governing profit, loss, and taxation are much more complex than "you lose 100% if you you make a loss but only take 65% if you make a profit". That would make any economist laugh as the sheer ignorance of that comment.
Secondly, the corporate profit tax rate is a NOMINAL RATE. The reality is that there are so many avenues to offset corporate taxation that the net taxation of corporate profits is *SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER* than the nominal rate. Japan, in fact, has the same nominal corporate tax rate as the United States but with a much stricter tax code that doesn't allow them to get away with all the loopholes and tax shelters inherent in the USA --- and they seem to be doing just fine with investment and economic growth.

- "Things will only get worse when Obama comes in since he plans to raise corporation tax even higher sending more investment and more jobs abroad.."

Obama's economic plan is overwhelmingly supported by American economists. He is not trying to raise tax rates on corporations, he simply wants to get rid of the tax shelters and loopholes that allow certain companies and industries to get away with what amounts to tax fraud! And to suggest that he is only going to raise taxes and "hurt the economy" is ridiculous!
In fact, he plans on creating the largest economic recovery project since FDR. He is going to invest over a TRILLION dollars in grants, subsidies, and tax incentives for American companies creating American jobs, and remove the incentives to outsource production. The conservatives have systematically destroyed America's manufacturing base over the last 30 years, and it is time for a restoration of American jobs.

I'm sure you also believe that Obama's tax plan which raises the personal income tax rates of the two highest brackets by roughly 3.5% is "socialism", despite the fact that it has been shown that overwhelmingly most wealthy individuals pay much less in net personal income taxes than the nominal rate of their tax bracket. Again, just like corporations, they are able to take advantage of all kinds of tax breaks, loopholes, and tax shelters with their team of accountants.

It's easy to see this in action. Despite nominal tax rates that are higher than average, the net taxation of the United States in tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is one of the lowest in the developed world! We are ranked #30 in fact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP

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