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Opinion: Stop Subsidizing Electric Vehicle Programs

The Truth About Cars

Hoping to increase the United States’ electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the White House has announced $623 million in grants to build more charging stations. billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program. Your author would argue that the juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. But nothing we did could gain the parks any more love or funding. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. When the mantra is “ Cut government spending and cut taxes too! But nothing we did could gain the parks any more love or funding.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Companies can not sell engineering prototypes in which the company got R&D tax breaks in developing the product. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? Posted by: Joe | Apr 13, 2009 11:27:11 PM The government gets no tax money on electric vehicles.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

According to Tol, the impact of a tax hike of this magnitude could reduce world GDP 12.9% On 24 February 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana. Earlier post.)