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Originally Posted by red-beard
You never actually answered the question
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I look at the rebates as the governments' contribution to research into electric vehicles/battery technology/clean air. Really no different than people who invest in Wall Street, so they are 'funding' those companies' progress (hardly true, but, whatever), so the government gives them a break with a lower tax rate on capital gains.
I also looked at a CTh at $30,000. I liked the Volt better than the Lexus, and would have chosen the $28k Volt over the $30k hybrid, all things 'even'.
I certainly wasn't going to walk away from the rebates however, that would have been stupid.
Again, I asked first - how about that math for computing the cost of operating my car? We all know you chose one of the highest cost per kilowatt hour locations in the US for your comparison, how about mine?