Greetings All, A friend of mine mentioned that it is very difficult to tax Italians.....so the Italian government places high taxes on gasoline- no escape.
We are entering an interesting world. I can remember going on-line with a telex machine and an acoustic coupler to DIALOG information Services in 1983- I think it was 1200baud. I had no idea of Apple and fiber optics ever being a "reality". I always thought fiber optics was an unreachable tech. Also, I found out later..baud was a telegraph term. Cold Fusion...10 years from now...hmmmmmmmmm...."disruptive technology" may be an understatement. A Salute to Rossi and his followers. Ciao, Ron Kita, Chiralex On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron Kita <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Governments cannot resist. Will almost free energy be killed by taxation. >> > > I do not think the voters would allow that. > > As I have often pointed out, cold fusion will save the average US citizen > roughly $2000 per year, $8000 for a family of four. That's just the start; > later it will save even more, as goods and services everywhere become > cheaper because of zero cost energy. > > $2000 per person is far larger than the biggest tax break in history. If > special interests attempt to strangle cold fusion, or impose unreasonable > taxes on it, I do not think the voters will stand by doing nothing in > response. A political leader who would deny ordinary people $2000 per year > would face unprecedented voter anger. > > That much money will sweep aside the most powerful special interests like > cobwebs. The fossil fuel companies or Wall Street Titans may think they can > stop this, but their opposition will not last more than a few months in the > face of public anger. > > As long as it becomes generally known that cold fusion is real, that it is > safe, and that it will save everyone huge sums of money, cold fusion will be > unstoppable. > > > I think it would be prudent to impose some taxes on cold fusion in some > applications. For example, we need something to replace the gasoline tax, to > pay for road construction. I think it would be prudent to charge automobile > owners a tax based the odometer for total mileage per year. Another plan > would be to install automatic electronic tolls on many roads. These were > recently installed in Atlanta on I-85. So far they are extremely unpopular, > but I believe they are the wave of the future, as I explained in my book. > > - Jed > >
