The entire electric vehicle industry only exists because of taxpayer money from subsidies, grants, guaranteed loans and regulations.
1 posted on
04/23/2012 11:21:22 AM PDT by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Big Gummint f**cks up again. it’s all because of Gore-Bull warming hysteria.
2 posted on
04/23/2012 11:24:29 AM PDT by
beethovenfan
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3 posted on
04/23/2012 11:46:18 AM PDT by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
"...whether federal and state government officials made a major error by using more than $1 billion in grants and tax credits to spur massive investments that are not yet needed,”
4 posted on
04/23/2012 12:00:12 PM PDT by
Darth Reardon
(No offense to drunken sailors)
To: jazusamo
5 posted on
04/23/2012 12:30:23 PM PDT by
preacher
(Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
To: jazusamo
It’s one thing to subsidize research and quite another to subsidize production. I could see handing out matching grants to subsidize research. Subsidizing production is just nuts, especially when many of the technologies aren’t ready for prime-time, based on cost-benefit calculations.
6 posted on
04/23/2012 1:27:20 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
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To: jazusamo
Almost all EV endeavors will fail without subsidies....and all for the same reason: Battery economics will never overcome battery physics.
7 posted on
04/23/2012 1:32:21 PM PDT by
rottndog
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