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About as affordable as living in new york. Reminder that your taxes pay for the subsidies that make the prices on EVs even anywhere near that "affordable" rang

• rini17 2y ago
  Reminder that oil is heavily subsidised too.
  • slackfan 2y ago
    So is medicine, so is air travel, so is farming...
    • rini17 2y ago
      Sure, everyone loves 1. to have stabilized supply and prices 2. be the first to ramp up the production of new tech and reap benefits of scale 3. to complain about taxes used as above :)
  • Detrytus 2y ago
    Maybe that's the US thing? In my country I'm not aware of any subsidies towards oil companies, on the contrary, more than a half of retail gas price is taxes.
    • rini17 2y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies
      • Detrytus 2y ago
        This article is just propaganda, devoid of any actual data.
• bdcravens 2y ago
  Many EVs don't qualify for subsidies (for example, Hyundai/Kia EVs that are financed, and not leased).
• deleted 2y ago
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• a_c_s 2y ago
  I'm glad they do: the more people drive electric the cleaner the air is that I breathe.