Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers, like VOLT

[busybody..]

Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers


By Neil Munro - The Daily Caller Published: 2:10 PM 02/13/2012 | Updated: 4:44 PM 02/13/2012





By Neil Munro - The Daily Caller





The White House intends to boost government subsidies for wealthy buyers of the Chevy Volt and other new-technology vehicles — to $10,000 per buyer.

That mammoth subsidy would cost taxpayers $100 million each year if it is approved by Congress, presuming only 10,000 new-technology autos are sold each year.

But the administration wants to get 1 million new-tech autos on the road by 2015. The subsidy cost of that goal could reach $10 billion.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/13/obama-hikes-subsidy-to-wealthy-electric-car-buyers/#ixzz1mIzIqUO3

 

[busybody..]

Insanity

Doin the same things over and over

Hopin for different results

 

[busybody..]

ELECTRIC CAR BUMMER: University of Tennessee Researchers Find E-Car Emissions May Be More Harmful than Gasoline Cars’.

 

[koalabear]

The new budget also has another bailout for people who shouldn't have bought houses they can't afford.

 

[phrodeau]

ELECTRIC CAR BUMMER: University of Tennessee Researchers Find E-Car Emissions May Be More Harmful than Gasoline Cars’.

Those emissions would be as bad as book-learning for womenfolk.

 

[Everest]

ELECTRIC CAR BUMMER: University of Tennessee Researchers Find E-Car Emissions May Be More Harmful than Gasoline Cars’.

And where was this research done?

China.

Does it apply to US E-Car emissions? No.
Do you care? No.

 

[busybody..]

fuck off, clown

 

[JoeRockStar]

So on one hand he wants to soak the rich but on the other he wants to PAY them to buy his failmobile? Wow, just wow.