>Taxing ICE vehicles hurts poor people who can't afford buying new EV even with subsidies, while subsidizing EV's doesn't. This is debatable. A dollar subsidy

>Taxing ICE vehicles hurts poor people who can't afford buying new EV even with subsidies, while subsidizing EV's doesn't. This is debatable. A dollar subsidy given for (expensive) EVs is a dollar not able to subsidize something that can directly benefit the poor (say, housing). In other words, resources are scarce. >Besides, nothing you buy is exactly clean. I agree, which is why we should impose costs on the things that are not clean, like cars, generally. Economics 101 says when you subsidize some behaviour, you get more of it. Do we want more cars, or fewer? Personally, I think (thanks mostly to Tesla) EVs are past the point of of skepticism. They've become desirable.