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It's not that far-fetched and in line with industry objectives. Ford, for example, is investing over $11 billion in electric vehicle development and planning to offer 40 models by 2022 with 16 all-electric and the others hybrids. Eleven billion is a whole lot of high paying jobs, people. I wish you righties would just stop the knee-jerk opposition to change. Change is good. Tech is good. Addressing climate threats is going to be an economic boon to any nation or region that embraces it.
Yes, this could create thousands if not millions of family wage jobs, as auto companies retool. It's a concept not dissimilar from President Obama's 'Cash for Clunkers' that was so effective.
Yes, this could create thousands if not millions of family wage jobs, as auto companies retool. It's a concept not dissimilar from President Obama's 'Cash for Clunkers' that was so effective.
Some quick reads for you on that hugely successful program.
because auto loans still aren’t readily available and many poorer people would buy a better quality used car rather than a new car. Used car prices poor people have to pay are now higher thanks to the compulsory destruction of half a million used vehicles
The program, which fueled a car-buying spree in the summer of 2009, cost $1.4 million for every job it created and did little to reduce carbon emissions, a Brookings Institution report said.
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But the Brookings researchers said the program mainly benefited wealthier and more educated Americans and provided less of a fiscal boost than programs that typically target the poor like social security, unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts, all of which have per-job costs of $200,000 or less. While over 650,000 clunkers were traded in, consumers only bought 380,000 vehicles they wouldn’t have otherwise purchased, the researchers conclude.
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The Brookings study also said the environmental impact of Cash for Clunkers was minimal, resulting in a drop of gasoline use equal to between two and eight days of current use. While the new cars had a fuel economy an average of about 10 miles per gallon better than the old cars, the program only touched a minuscule portion of the American auto fleet.
It's not that far-fetched and in line with industry objectives. Ford, for example, is investing over $11 billion in electric vehicle development and planning to offer 40 models by 2022 with 16 all-electric and the others hybrids.
Maybe, but it does nothing to address climate change, which is the stated goal.
Save the planet? What?! Are these f***ing people kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another. And we're going to save the f***ing planet?!
- George Carlin
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