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To: palmer
Yes, we were helping Israel fight the Yom Kippur War and OPEC decided to punish us because they knew they could hit us where it hurts.

I think you are misinformed about the subsidy. It is $7,500, not $75,000. But I agree that cars that cost over $50k like the Tesla Model S should not get the subsidy. That is a luxury car and their customers are not buying it for economic efficiency. Keep the subsidy for the $35k Chevy Volt and the $30k Nissan Leaf to bring them down to $27.5k and $22.5k, respectively.

And no, you don't need to double or triple the subsidy because all you have to do is make them price competitive with gasoline cars, not make them free. Over time, the subsidies go away (each manufacturer gets 200,000 before they ramp down) so they are only there to help offset the price while the technology is new and expensive. Prices have already fallen by a few thousand dollars in the four years they have been on the market and they will continue to fall as li-ion batteries continue their downward cost trend.

67 posted on 09/15/2014 10:37:10 AM PDT by LogicDesigner
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To: LogicDesigner
I figured the car was 75, I knew the subsidy is 7.5 plus any state subsidy.

I don't believe in any subsidies right now. The R&D of things like batteries is important so we should give money to national research labs or places like that right now. Economy of scale for batteries is a joke. We are using up lithium, not scaling up. The more we waste on overkill like the Tesla, the more expensive it will get.

68 posted on 09/15/2014 11:55:50 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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