I think everyone is good with EV subsidies, just not those for companies whose executives have conflicts of interests as they act as government officials overseeing the spending.
most ev shouldn’t get subsidies. especially not the heavy tanks that do more damage to the infrastructure.
petrol-powered vehicles should be taxed more instead–a lot more. at purchase (or resale), at registration, every year at tag renewal, and at the pump. and be subject to lifetime emissions and safety inspections.
charge double or triple in fees for ownership and push gas prices to ~ $2 per litre like it is in parts of europe, then most everybody but the least-endowed will be buying battery electric vehicles. small, efficient ones.
The problem is that unlike Europe we don’t have a walkable country. You guys have cities that are less spread apart. I wish our cities were more community friendly infrastructure. My city is starting to put bike trails that are desperately needed since we are being run over while biking. There’s always a story with someone being hit.
I really wish I could get this across to the FuckCars people in countries other than the U.S.
I just moved from Terre Haute, Indiana in the U.S. to Blackburn in England. The fact that virtually everything you need is within a half-hour walk, most of it much less, cannot be overstated. It’s just not like that in the U.S. Terre Haute has something like 40% the population of Blackburn and driving from one end of town to another, and the shops are spread out all over town, takes 45 minutes.
So would only Tesla not be able to get ev tax credits? The other big manufacturers also have huge pull in government. Though I agree having Elon making decisions is a disaster and extremely prone to abuse.
If you guys really wanted cheap EVs, maybe not having 100% tariffs on Chinese EV’s would help. You can make an argument about not letting the Chinese government into the market, but as it currently stands the US government isn’t looking much better.
Cutting EV subsidies would lead to more gas cars, which isn’t good. Investing in public transit would be better, but encouraging EVs is also good.
I think everyone is good with EV subsidies, just not those for companies whose executives have conflicts of interests as they act as government officials overseeing the spending.
the subsidy thing is backwards.
most ev shouldn’t get subsidies. especially not the heavy tanks that do more damage to the infrastructure.
petrol-powered vehicles should be taxed more instead–a lot more. at purchase (or resale), at registration, every year at tag renewal, and at the pump. and be subject to lifetime emissions and safety inspections.
charge double or triple in fees for ownership and push gas prices to ~ $2 per litre like it is in parts of europe, then most everybody but the least-endowed will be buying battery electric vehicles. small, efficient ones.
The problem is that unlike Europe we don’t have a walkable country. You guys have cities that are less spread apart. I wish our cities were more community friendly infrastructure. My city is starting to put bike trails that are desperately needed since we are being run over while biking. There’s always a story with someone being hit.
I really wish I could get this across to the FuckCars people in countries other than the U.S.
I just moved from Terre Haute, Indiana in the U.S. to Blackburn in England. The fact that virtually everything you need is within a half-hour walk, most of it much less, cannot be overstated. It’s just not like that in the U.S. Terre Haute has something like 40% the population of Blackburn and driving from one end of town to another, and the shops are spread out all over town, takes 45 minutes.
Ah, you’re living with the dodos sooties
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_regional_nicknames
So would only Tesla not be able to get ev tax credits? The other big manufacturers also have huge pull in government. Though I agree having Elon making decisions is a disaster and extremely prone to abuse.
If you guys really wanted cheap EVs, maybe not having 100% tariffs on Chinese EV’s would help. You can make an argument about not letting the Chinese government into the market, but as it currently stands the US government isn’t looking much better.
Sure, but that doesn’t change whether subsidies should be granted or not.
It would be better to subsidise owners rather than manufacturers.
They do. That’s what these subsidies are. But it does mean Tesla can change more.