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Originally Posted by red-beard
Again, if the vehicles is so great, WHY do you have to have the government pay you to buy the vehicle?
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If milk is so good why do we have price fixing?
Even Pri started out with a government subsidy - now they are doing so well, even you use them as a cost comparison.
If oil is so great why does the government subsidize the oil business? If coal is so great why does the government subsidize coal? I realize I got a 'subsidy' to buy my vehicle - and why shouldn't I get a tax break, when big oil has for decades? You want a piece of the pie - buy an electric car, or not...
We live in a land where the government does make some decisions to create opportunity for new technology. Since the government has been cutting back on subsidizing research, this is the way they have decided to augment research, with rebates. Here they are, in fact, subsidizing battery technology. Batteries are improving a lot and one of the big drivers is vehicles. Tesla wouldn't be selling nearly 300,000 cars without the rebate, but since it is, it will get to pour money into improving battery technology, something that will filter into many different industries.
Edit - oh, I see you neglected to do the math on the cost of operating my car - I wonder why that is?