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And the goshdarn Liberal Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 12:36 PM

Dear John, I was born in the Los Angeles basin before the EPA. I remember what it was like. Yes, electric vehicles are not cost effective at this time. I would buy one if I needed a new car. Detroit told us we did not need seat belts, the Japanese were a passing fad, and Americans liked big cars with extremely low mpg (Do you own a Ford Excursion?). You don't like subsidies? get rid of farm subsidies. Subsidies to Oil, subsidies to any of a dozen industries I don't like. The difference between the two of us is that you like the smell of diesel exhaust. I like the fact that when I get behind a big rig I am not suffocated by sooty exhaust. Courtesy of that darn big government.

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Don't Tread On Me3 Wrote: Dec 08, 2012 11:34 AM

The Los Angeles basin is geographically & meterologically pretty exceptional as its topography & position makes it especially prone to temperature inversions. The LA basin is not representative of the rest of the country & shouldn't dictate it.

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Kibitzer Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 1:26 PM

So go buy yourself a Chevy Volt if you think it such a good idea. Those that pay attention to what they pay for what they get aren't going to buy many if any of them.

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Bob570 Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 12:56 PM

Dear Goshdarn, Now I know why California is this country's Greece, and why it will be the rest, will in all likelihood, be the rest of the country financially bailing you out. Sometime ago a Japanese gentlemen, who was Ministerial aide in the 60's, told me Japan had once offered to pay off our national debt for California. I suggested they try again, with adding that they'd take all Californians with them. He quickly told me, that was deal breaker.

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Electric Cars: The Environmentally Friendly Way of Losing Money Since 2009

A Congressional Budget Office report released in the fall tells Obama what the rest of us have known for some time: Your bet on electric cars wasn’t an investment, but a gamble; a dumb gamble.

And now you’ve just come up snake eyes.

“Despite the federal government pumping $7.5 billion into the electric vehicle industry in the United States through 2019,” writes the CSMonitor.com, “overall national gasoline consumption is unlikely to be significantly affected, according to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).”

The CBO says that even if Obama increased the amount of the subsidy, it...

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