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Originally Posted by foxpaws
Trains, planes, automobiles... Add to that computers, food, paint, communication, etc. Many things we have available to us in our daily lives have been 'improved' or 'reinvented' at taxpayer expense. ...
Choice is good. And what is wrong with people buying Teslas for 'image' - you do remember you are on a Porsche site - right?
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Sure, choice is good. And I don't have a (much)problem with those chasing image. Just don't try to sell me on the metrics, or some BS about, "it's just a car." Both the Tesla and the Prius are Statement cars. Even Honda started styling their econobox hybrid to look like a Prius. Because people buy these things to make a political/image statement. (else they get a Hybrid Camery or VW TDi... Volt...)
IOW If NASA had some super efficient battery tech, then that would be wonderful and useful for all. But today we have batteries which are far
FAR from competing with high specific energy fuels. So we have massive tax-breaks for a political statement, green-washed as a piece of
technology of the future. --oh please... this is nothing more than (govt subsidized) lipstick on a fat old battery pig.