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I don't think the government is interfering as much as you think it is. EVs have been in the pipe for a while now, and the tax credits for them (at least in the
by NickM 16y ago
I don't think the government is interfering as much as you think it is. EVs have been in the pipe for a while now, and the tax credits for them (at least in the US) are only a couple years old.
If there were some other promising type of alternative vehicle coming out, I'm sure there would be tax credits for them as well, but right now there aren't really any other practical alternatives to EVs.
- stretchwithme 16y agoIts $5000 from California and up to $7500 from the Feds. Which is exactly how much interference I think it is. And all policies start. After a couple of years, a tax credit is always only a couple of years old. I don't see how long a policy has been in please is relevant in deciding whether it should be.
- jseliger 16y agoConsidering the foreign policy externalities that our oil consumption generates (even leaving aside the environmental ones for now), I wish the feds and the states would subsidize electric cars more and fight wars in the Middle East less.
- stretchwithme 16y agoOr simply stay out of the Middle East and let the market cope with any fluctuations in the price of oil. Unpredictability is a cost and people are quite capable of deciding how much is too much. By the way, a lot of the additional electricity required for electric vehicles will have to be generated by burning oil.