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Originally Posted by The HACK
Funny you should say that. What the world wide government incentives spent for EVs pale in comparison with what the U.S. have spent to incentivize the continued purchase and use of gasoline powered ICE cars.
I'm not a beatnik, but even at $4.xx per gallon we pay but a fraction of what other countries pay for gas, because we've already spent multiples of trillion dollars and thousands of U.S. lives for the privilege to pay less for a gallon of gas than milk (for some parts of the country, at least). 
At the end of the day, the "incentives" to purchase EVs is a drop in the bucket by comparison. |
I'm not a Luddite either. I'm just being realistic and stating facts as they have played out. The availability of gasoline is related to the existence of the petrochemical industry, which supports a world-wide economic system. If the argument is the blood for oil crap, then we probably pay more per gallon; it's just the tax bill is applied different. The Europeans get to tax the crap out of fuel because we pay their defense bills.
We can argue this all day long. But the facts are, the US Government has incentivized the creation of the EV market solely for the political purpose of environmentalism. It is just a statement of fact.