Hehe

9:34 pm EST November 6th, 2006 | Politics | 3 Comments

Please read this post from Dilbert’s Scott Adams.

For example, on my “serious” Sunday blog post I mentioned that California’s Proposition 87 would tax the oil companies and use the funds to promote alternative energy. Many of you ripped into me and pointed out that the oil companies would simply pass on the costs to consumers, so it’s really a tax on you and me.

Well, more like a tax on you. I don’t drive much. I walk to work. But still, it’s a fair point. Companies have to pass along their costs, right?

Now I have to sit around wondering why Chevron would spend millions of dollars trying to defeat a proposition that won’t cost them any money. Apparently no one told them they can pass those costs to you and me. (Mostly you.)

Or maybe Proposition 87 would make you and I (mostly you) pay a bit more at the pumps while Chevron subsidizes the rest. But that’s okay because the money goes toward a good cause, right? Doesn’t everyone like the idea of seeking out alternative sources of energy?

Not according to the majority of the comments on this blog. You reminded me that all government initiatives are doomed. Sure, the government has a few lucky successes, such as building highways and schools and dams and reducing pollution and eradicating polio and encouraging the Internet and winning World Wars I and II. But a broken clock is right twice a day too.

You also taught me that it is impossible to invent new and economical sources of alternative energy because no one has done it yet. I had never looked at it that way.

Emphasis mine.

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3 Responses to “Hehe”

  1. PD100 says:
    November 7, 2006 at 9:39 am

    This is the same Scott Adams who once opined that company downsizing is a good thing.
    Dilbert isn’t funny. It never was funny. I always likened it to Family Circus with a necktie.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    November 7, 2006 at 10:24 am

    That’s right, PD. Liberals aren’t funny. They’re never funny.

    If you want a funny comic strip, there’s always that laff-a-minute duck guy.

  3. factcheck says:
    November 7, 2006 at 12:14 pm

    I think Scott Adams is being snarky.