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I agree, we can not trust Tesla or Musk any more than Toyota. I find Tesla Model S pretty third rate and over-hyped car and I find it despicable that rich peopl
by tn13 11y ago
I agree, we can not trust Tesla or Musk any more than Toyota. I find Tesla Model S pretty third rate and over-hyped car and I find it despicable that rich people get $10K subsidy on each Tesla they buy while a lot of us drive 20 year old cars.
Keeping the motives aside I am unable to see how auto industry benefits by keeping fuel efficiency standards low. Fuel efficiency standards are more affected by competition than government regulation. However if government somehow sets unreasonable and achievable standards while keeping the cost of car low, losers such as Telsa might benefit.
The more important question to ask is whether American air is more cleaner than other parts of the world. Having traveled a bit I can say it is. Also comparison to any European country is completely meaningless, USA is a large country where people drive all sort of crazy vehicles for crazy purposes. I don't see to many RVs, boat tows etc. in UK as in USA.
- bigiain 11y ago" … while a lot of us drive 20 year old cars." in which you " … tow my boat to carry my dirt bike … "? I'm not going to say either of the arguments in your two posts are wrong (or right), but they're not terribly internally self consistent. (Full disclosure, I ride a motorcycle that uses more fuel than a friend's late model Honda Jazz, so I'm not much of a tree-hugging greenie - but I certainly don't find it "despicable" that people who choose to buy "zero-emission" cars get a big subsidy because the government wants to encourage both the consumers and the industry who build them. If the governemnt decided there was a public health reason to subsidize "outdoor activity", would your boat and dirtbike ownership suddenly make _you_ "despicable"?)