“So the government makes 3 times the amount that big bad oil companies make. And the Democrats plan is to tax them more!...”
I think I finally realize why GM crushed all its electric vehicles it built in the ‘90’s!!!
This was the subject of one of those conspiracy movies (which, shamefully, I haven't taken the time to see.) GM leased the cars so that there would be no misunderstanding who actually owned them.
When you're a car company, you have to think like a lawyer, because you're such an inviting target. Car companies are required to provide parts for vehicles for ten years...and the parts for those cars were proprietary. You couldn't buy them at NAPA.
Imagine the whining when batteries stopped working and needed to be replaced. Imagine the bad press GM would have gotten about that.
Those vehicles were not fully developed products, nor were they meant to be; they were used for research purposes.
It's led me to what I call Gogeo's third law of human nature: When one's intellectual framework requires one to ignore reality, conspiracy theories are the only theories that make sense.
Or, to put it more simply: When you're a moonbat, conspiracies are the only workable explanation.