Posted on 04/07/2016 9:58:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Reducing 1.2 tonnes of CO₂ on the EU emissions trading system costs £5; but instead, the UK Government subsidises each car with £4,500. All of the world’s electric cars sold so far have soaked up £9 billion in subsidies, yet will only save 3.3 million tonnes of CO₂. This will reduce world temperatures by 0.00001°C in 2100 – the equivalent of postponing global warming by about 30 minutes at the end of the century.
Electric cars will be a good idea, once they can compete – which will probably be by 2032. But it is daft to waste billions of pounds of public money on rich people’s playthings that kill more people through air pollution while barely affecting carbon emissions. The Tesla 3 is indeed a “zero emissions” marvel – but that is only because it does not yet exist.
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You don’t understand how subsidies work. Lots of people pay in and few get the benefit.
If you choose to be one of the few the that’s your choice.
I most certainly DO understand how they work, and I most certainly do understand how many hundreds of thousands of dollars I've paid in federal taxes in my 30+ years of paying them.
You want to call getting $7500 of MY TAX Dollars back a "subsidy?" That's a sick joke.
You can rationalize it however you choose.
Quickly dumping all that energy into current batteries is hard on them. That is why Tesla recommends using the supercharger for occasional road trips. Tesla's have battery heating and cooling systems to optimize battery charging and performance. I would guess further decreasing the charge time would require a redesign of the battery and cooling system.
Sounds like a tonne of bulls-— to me.
Quibble — the Dems don’t give a crap about American jobs. Politics is always and only about power. As long as they’re holding the reins, they don’t care about the direction we’re going.
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