>> With the $7,500 federal tax rebate and the $2,500 state tax rebate we have here in Texas, you can get a brand new Volt for $25k.
Grrrr... how come you greenies can’t pay your OWN damn way if you think these things are the way to go? Why do I have to buy your damn car?
“I know that the tax rebates are not popular, but less than a billion dollars was spent last year on the federal rebates for electric vehicles. Compare that to the $50 billion a year that we spend policing the oil shipping lanes of the middle east with our navy. If these rebates can spur on an industry that could allow us to cut ourselves off from the geopolitics associated with oil, then they are well worth it.”
That is a $50 billion a year subsidy the government is providing oil companies in the form of free rent-a-cop service. How about we eliminate the $7,500 electric tax credit right after we add a gas tax that will cover that $50 billion per year? Also don't forget to add in the hidden costs of all the geopolitical entanglements that oil causes. Who really thinks, with all the information that has come out, that oil had nothing to do with why we went into Iraq? That's a trillion dollar and several thousand lives boondoggle that never should have happened (and I voted for GWB and supported the Iraq war, initially).