Foul play my a$$.
Someone should film the executives at PBS and what they drive...
Foul play my a$$.
I have a work colleague who drives an electric car. He told me this theory some months ago. According to him, electric cars are just so damn good they threatened to destroy the oil industry so they had to be killed off.
I wanna know who killed Public Television? Something tells me its a BIG conspiracy cooked up by Big Brancaccio, Big Moyers and Big Bird.
Leftists say: The people are fools! They are easily tricked and led astray by greedy businessmen and slick advertising campaigns! Left to themselves, chaos will erupt! We need to take things away from them for their own good!
Folks didn't buy them; but their biggest problem was production size (usually too small) or design. But of course, that's a conspiracy. Come on, wackaloons, keep it up.
Yeah, I'm sure GM killed it because it thought that the electric car would obsolete all of those factories that produce gasoline powered cars.
The extension cords kept getting tangled up.
they come up with an electric car with the range, capabilities, comfort and performance of mine for a reasonable price and I surely would consider it.
Electric vehicles just do not have the soul-stirring, spine-tingling appeal of a big rumbling V-8 ticking over at 400 rpm, and with a blip of the throttle, opening up to 6000 rpm and emitting an exhaust note of about 150 decibels, enough to rattle window panes three blocks away and drown out all conversation within a hundred-yard radius. Followed by a burn-out start down the drag strip, with an elapsed time of maybe 6.5 seconds and achieving a velocity of 140+ mph in a standing quarter.
When electric vehicles can be tuned to do THAT, they shall be a serious challenge to the internal-combustion engine. Until then, they are applicances.
I have my own theory. It wasn't Big Oil and GM that killed the electric car- it was Ed Begley, Jr. Once the pictures of him in that silly car hit the press (not the Saturn-based fiasco- the earlier one from the 80s), it was all over for me. Follow that up with the video of Alicia Silverstone in her even sillier looking "electric car" and you've got most normal people clamoring for the continued use of fossil fuels. Those vehicles made Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the AMC Pacer, Big Foot, and the Pope-Mobile look like more sensible choices...
His film may be mostly garbage but he's right about tax advantages for business SUV owners. If you're self employed and buying a vehicle for business use you're a fool if you don't buy a big (over 6000 lb. gross vehicle wieght rating) SUV, truck, or van because of the much larger Section 179 accelerated depreciation deduction that you get in the deal. Fortunately, if you really want a smaller, more efficient SUV, you can trade the big one for a small one and because they're in the same class for like-kind exchange purposes, thereby transfer the depreciation benefits of a large SUV to a smaller one.
You can look at this as a tax subsidy for SUV buyers, but I would call it tax relief for the shrewd business owners.