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We will pay more as petro based transportation costs rise.
There will be a turnover point on alternatively powered vehicles.
But since we are not quite there yet we should abandon that route?
abandon them as in how? we are SUBSIDIZING the cost and sales of these vehicles. How much does that count for?
The break even point is actually close to $4 a gallon...think on that for a moment.....
we ARE pursuing battery tech. that will in the 10-15 year time span ( hopefully0 change the cost effectiveness.....and in the meantime?
We subsidize our entire highway system. Should we quit doing that?
thats not a subsidy to or for a defined market.It was a public good issue, in that everyone would use such. And it is maintained by tax dollars.
We subsidized the transcontinental railway.
yes we did. same as above.
We subsidized nuclear power, Rural electrification, etc.
No one asked for that, the TVA was pushed into and took the market for instance. There iutltites that were ready willing and able to provide that power.
There are hundreds of utilities that are not subsidized so as to create a market in this fashion.Those you mentioned above are for the public good and serve everyone not a sect. of the populace.
We have spent trillions subsidizing petro and still are.
no, I am sorry, tax breaks aren't subsidies in this context. The oil co's paid, between 1970 and 2004 over 500 billion in taxes and they netted 650 billion. Please show me the same formula and justification for the volt and leaf?
we ae paying people to buy cars,these cars are not efficable, these cars are not a public good or serve everyone minus