The U.S should slowly ban gas powered cars and invest in hydrogen powered cars.

I admit I did screw up in the rules. That was my fault simply due to not double checking and confusing my initial post and first rounds and all that. Not making excuses and I admit my wrong there. If you wish to knock me for conduct feel free however also note that my opponent is capable of posting via phone whether he makes a post saying he can't debate this round or not he did not login even to mention that. If we're going to talk conduct yes I admit I broke that rule but my opponent also didn't mention his problem until after forfeiting a round yet still managed to write a berating and quite long argument a round after. May I point out that failure to follow rules forfeiting rounds is not a means for not voting it's a reason for voting a certain way in regards to conduct within the debate. In the comments of this debate my opponent admits the issue he has with his computer to which I state I understand the problem. However he then posts a fairly long post in his next round in which he states he doesn't want people to vote at all due to my misconduct and his technical problems. My question is why was he unable to do this in his previous round, why did he post in both areas, and why should the work we did do be negated due to technicalities. There is a voting option for conduct and if anything it should be left tied because I did break a rule but he also forfeited a round when he clearly did have capabilities of at least logging in to state his problems and while I understand the problems he is having did not impede him from making a long post to not vote and criticize me. By the way I am writing this post on my phone as well and while it is inconvenient it's completely possible to do. I ask all voters to ignore my opponent's request to not vote and to vote based off the questions it asks. Reliable sources, spelling and grammar, convincing arguments, AND conduct. When I see my opponent acting as he just did by calling me out in a long post after claiming he can't even continue the debate because of his inability to write long posts or effectively debate makes me upset. Had he just made a quick comment asking both the readers an myself to nullify this debate then I wouldn't have had a problem but to act unilaterally in attempting to nullify both our work simply due to my breaking of a rule and his technical issues which I now see are not that serious if he can still post, those are actions that as just as if not worse conduct. Because of that I state that this debate should still be valid, no agreement to end it by the parties involved was made and therefore no one should treat it as such. Vote conduct however you choose based on my rebuttals in my first round and his forfeiting and unilaterally calling for nullifying the debate but vote the rest as you would any other debate. If anything my opponent, as he clearly demonstrated his ability to write long posts via phone, should have just asked for an ignoring of grammar in voting, as he stated in his last round that his only problem is keeping track of large paragraphs, I would have accepted that and ignored grammar if that was his problem. Or he could have shown some respect and asked me if we could nullify the debate and ask people not to vote. Instead he chose to call me out on rule breaking and call for it to not be voted on. That doesn't sound like he is having problems, it sounds to me like he just doesn't want to continue the debate. Please consider these facts when you decide to vote or not and when weighing my conduct vs his. I admit I broke a rule and I could have continued to argue my points. My opponent had multiple options from confronting me via a message and asking me to admit my fault and give up a round to making a statement in the last round or a comment and I would have ceded a round out of respect. Instead my opponent makes excuses to nullify our debate. Consider this when you vote. Now, with all of that out of the way I would continue on and actually post an argument as it really is not that difficult to do so from a phone, as both myself and my opponent have now shown. In addition I could make an argument in this round, my last round I ceded due to his forfeit but seeing as my opponent is fully capable of posting and coul have debated still I usually would still post an argument here especially after all these problems. However, I will cede yet another round and not post any debate as punishment for my rule break. I will also offer my opponent if he can figure out how to write from his phone the opportunity to post two full comments of rebuttal to my opening statements without considering it a problem. And then we can move on to the final round and because we have wasted two rounds we will have rebuttals and closing statements in that final round. If my opponent accepts this and posts two comments of rebuttals and his final round then I call on voters to tie out score in conduct and vote the rest of the debate as normal. If my opponent does not accept and gives up then please vote conduct to who you feel acted the best in the debate and the rest as usual. Thank you all and please vote. - sent from iPhone