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

Stuart46 Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 7:01 AM
And what are the road use taxes for? Why to repair the roads and bridges. If everyone stopped paying those taxes we would eventually have no usable roads and bridges.
Red Spot in a Blue State Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 11:02 AM
I have no problem paying state taxes for something like that..................IF they were actually being used for roads and bridges. We all know that's not what our money is being spent on.

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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