Posted on 12/30/2009 10:06:32 AM PST by george76
Electric carmaker plans to keep gallery in Boulder.
Nate Hukill was not in the market for a new car -- he said Tuesday he's not even really a "car person." But on his way back from lunch ...
Now Hukill's owned his high-performance, all-electric, thunder-gray Tesla Roadster for three weeks. ... which has a $100,000 price tag.
But it was the $42,000 tax credit offered by the state of Colorado that really sealed the deal.
Embarrassingly, the tax incentive was so shocking...
Within 30 seconds, he was hooked.
The incredibly liberal tax incentive...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Rocky Mountain SIGH......................
I guess he's the guy who "didn't stay on the line" from that investment commercial..................
Then you already know. It’s just gotten more bizzare.
The truth about subsidizing “clean cars” is that all it does is give cash to rich people (the only ones buying hybrids & electrics are the rich) to buy status symbols that dump their pollution in the laps of the rabble (electricity produces air pollution, just not in Boulder or San Francisco... and the rare earth metals used to make these things require extremely dirty mining in poor parts of the world.
It’s typical Boulder all-liberal, all-rich, all-hypocrisy, all-white “diversity” and “caring.”
Driving an alternate energy status symbol - so the pollution can be sent to the lungs of poor brown children instead of their designer-bred lap-dogs.
“And those 6 people escaped from the mental asylum and the one giving a car a hug needs to be locked up again in the looney bin.”
Put a fence around the entire city of Boulder and don’t ever let anyone out!!!
bttt
Boulder has been described as 25 square miles surrounded by reality.
Nice car. Put a 350hp V-8 in it and I might buy one.
>>Ever been to Boulder??
Yep
Recommend take off and nuke entire site from orbit - only way to be sure.
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