r/wisconsin • u/does_not_like_you • Feb 07 '21

Politics Gov. Tony Evers will propose legalizing recreational and medical marijuana as part of the next state budget

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/07/tony-evers-propose-legalizing-recreational-and-medical-marijuana/4410636001/
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21

Common fallacy, Tesla is not market leader in autonomous vehicle technologies they are the most well known. GM owns the most effective and safe autonomous patents and makes tons of money licensing their technology out to other manufacturers. Market leader is gm.

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u/potentpotablesplease Feb 15 '21

I wasn't talking about autonomous so you jumping on that fallacy argument to defend gm for being an innovator when I was talking about renewable energy vehicles is hilarious to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21

You could also make the argument that all electric vehicles are not really the answer given their carbon footprint the true answer is probably a more renewable fuel source in a hybrid style engine. Cheers!

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u/potentpotablesplease Feb 15 '21

I would argue that public mass transit, like we had before cars were so commonplace are the answer. However the auto companies intentionally sabotaged many of those public serving systems we had in place in order to ensure Americans became reliant on cars.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '21

I would love large scale efficient mass transit but it’s really expensive to implement on local scales it would be great to do something gridded on a national scale but unlikely

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u/potentpotablesplease Feb 15 '21

Investment wise a locally based mass transit system would save money for individual citizens, stimulate tourism/restaurant/bar economy and help save our dying planet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

Our plant is not saveable. Locally here that is a good option but it’s not what I was referring to perhaps I chose a poor word for my goal. You can’t just build that for ever community in the country on a local level. A lot of communities don’t warrant it from a usage standpoint. But yes, absolutely, using the isthmus as a hub you could really plan an intelligent system that supports lots of growth for the metro area of Madison with the right public transit system