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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S. However, there has been public pushback over how to pay for the plan and its push to decrease personal driving by imposing a mileage tax.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product. Additionally, I had a close frind out in California that just about creamed in his pants when he was able to lease one. Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles.

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