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What's wrong with letting the market decide without government putting their thumb on the scales?
Let the market decide? We didn’t and don’t do that with ICE vehicles given the decades with of subsidies given to the oil and gas industry by government (ie taxpayers) to artificially depress the price of gas.
If EVs also get subsidized for car companies and customers, I’m ok with that.
Let the market decide? We didn’t and don’t do that with ICE vehicles given the decades with of subsidies given to the oil and gas industry by government (ie taxpayers) to artificially depress the price of gas.
If EVs also get subsidized for car companies and customers, I’m ok with that.
False equivalent.
If you said give subsidies to electric power companies then that would be a logical comparison.
What about a longer term phase in, say over 30-40 years? As technology improves, the needs for raw material might not be such an issue.
That would make more sense. I also think it's odd how they have skipped over hybrids before those have been widely adopted. Going straight to EV's is not realistic.
However, Europe as an example already has a deadline to switch to EV's by 2035. It's putting the cart before the horse. There are still a lot of issues to work out. One big one is they don't have a concrete plan at this time on how to recycle the batteries.
Let the market decide? We didn’t and don’t do that with ICE vehicles given the decades with of subsidies given to the oil and gas industry by government (ie taxpayers) to artificially depress the price of gas.
If EVs also get subsidized for car companies and customers, I’m ok with that.
You might want to look up how subsidies work.
Nobody "gave" the oil companies anything other than a reduced tax rate.
Letting them keep more of their own money for R&D helps keep our gas prices lower than Europe etc.
Also, the oil they produce goes into a lot more than gasoline.... Including making EV's.
What about a longer term phase in, say over 30-40 years? As technology improves, the needs for raw material might not be such an issue.
Again, let the market decide.
If the technology comes, demand will follow.
Right now, government and EV proponents are trying to make demand mandatory through mandates and wishing the technology into existence.
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