“All these electric cars are costing us taxpayers way too much. I bet if you added up all the government spending an electric car has at least $1 million per vehicle in prior year government (read:taxpayer) spending behind them.”
Since many others did as well, I won't fault you for falling for the “$250,000 in subsidies per Volt” baloney that was published by an EV hater a few years ago. He took all the government grant money and divided it by the first 6,000 Volts that had been sold up until that point. The simple explanation is that since ten times as many have been sold since then, to calculate that number today you would have to divide that number in ten... and that is assuming no more Volts get sold. A more thorough explanation is here.
“Electric cars also result in massive Super Fund environmental cleanup projects.”
100% baloney. Please provide a link supporting this claim or admit that it is just a fact-free assertion. In the meantime, I can find some links to a few oil spills if you like.
“They also run primarily on coal produces electricity; coal, a substance Zero and his ecoterrorists have been putting out of business.”
Coal is not the primary source of electricity. In the United States, it represents less than 40% of generation on average. The other 60% is much, much cleaner: natural gas, nuclear, and hydro. Furthermore, electric cars are sold in greatest numbers in states that tend to use much less coal than the 40% average, like California.
You haven’t counted in that taxpayer funding all the grants towards. You only include direct subsidies to the Volt.
I guess you missed the stories on Nickel mining and cleanup.
If electric cars were such a great deal then you wouldn’t need taxpayer funding of any sort. Obviously, electric cars are not worth the money since it takes taxpayers to fund them.
When you add up the Tesla taxpayer funded subsidies did you bother to include the $250 million Kali state environmental credits? Did you include that 15% of automakers must have certain vehicles so Tesla sells their credits to other automakers? No? Didn’t think so.
Electric requires taxpayer and other car purchasers to subsidize it because it isn’t commercially viable.
Socialism sucks. It never pays off.