Pro-Tip: Calling someone an expletive doesn’t make your argument stronger.

There were some folks who said Obama wasn’t black. But that argument was invalid because what is black cannot really be defined. A third of all African Americans are descendants of people who reached this shore in the last 40 years, and not the descendants of enslaved Africans. There are also a multiplicity of black…

I don’t have to sidestep anything. There are rules to logical arguments and debate, all of which were established long before any of us were born. Those rules were also taught in school and most of us should be familiar with them. One of those rules is that counter-arguments must directly address the argument being…

Last I checked, your electric car can’t be charged at home without special equipment. More importantly, there are five gas stations within a minute of my home, versus just one charging station that would take ten minutes for me to reach.

Very impressive.

Hillary got pneumonia because that’s a thing that happens when people start getting into their late 60s and early 70s. As with cancer, pneumonia can be a consequence of living a long life.

But it’s not apples and oranges or bananas in comparison. An electric car is a car, just as a gasoline-powered car is. So the comparison is valid, even if you would prefer it not to be.

Except that it doesn’t usually work that way. At a certain point, growth will slow because you begin reaching whatever limits in technology that are there at the time. So we may eventually double the range of electric cars, but it is unlikely to happen in four years.

Which is still longer than refueling a gas tank: Three minutes.

You have it partly right. Range and recharging/refueling both matter. Range matters even more with electric cars just because of the difficulty in being able to recharge, both in time as well as in charging locations.

Again, the key word is to you. For many other folks (and I know a lot of those people), range matters. If you live in Maryland and have family in Tennessee, Georgia or Arkansas, you are traveling more than 400 miles in a day to visit them. Stopping to refuel or recharge takes time from the trip that you would rather…

That’s the key: For you. For me, it is a problem. I like getting where I have to go with little stopping. So the larger tank matters.

Additionally, the 2016 XC90 gets 489 miles on a full tank, a 13.7 percent increase over the 2005 version.

Let me guess: Your Golf TDI was built within the last five years, right? If so, it proves my ultimate point: Electric cars still have a long way to go before they can compete with gas-fueled cars.

I tend to drive further than that. I have family in Georgia (I live in Maryland), Tennessee, and Arkansas; the latter of which can take half a day of driving.

Yes. Anyone following me knows that. I’ve talked about the Volvo more than a fair share of times. So I’m not pulling anything out of thin air.

My bladder can. Anyhow: The big issue at the end of the day is that it takes far less time to refuel a car than it does to charge batteries in an electric car. In order for the electric car to be successful in the long run, it will need to more than match the driving distance of cars and SUVs with internal combustion…

I’ll be more impressed when an electric car has the range of a 2005 Volvo XC90 on a full tank of gas: 430 miles before another needed pit stop (barring bathroom breaks).

Miri Ben Ami wants her act back.

Again, talking about his T-shirt is a red herring; free speech isn’t dependent on whether we favor whatever symbols are used, and arguments aren’t dependent on them either. Put simply, you’re trying to change the conversation, especially since it is about an issue with which you disagree.