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To: Ben Ficklin
Most families own multiple cars and if they buy an electric it is only for local duty and have no intent of taking it on the road.

Fine, keep your EV in hour neighborhood. But don't venture out on the Interstate highway system and expect to find taxpayer financed chargers every 25 miles. What galls us is the STATE installing these things where they are totally impractical -- it's a perfect example of STATE thinking. Extremely expensive, will used by very few "elite" people, an totally impractical (just as you point out). That's why the "wisdom of markets" beats central planning every time and every place they've been tried.

88 posted on 03/18/2012 8:55:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"What galls us is the STATE installing these things"

That is because you don't understand, or even acknowledge, the costs of pollution. Including the cost to the state.

I don't mean to discourage you, but let me tell you how it always brakes out.

In this particular issue, the cost of pollution, the group divides into 2 groups with one group saying there is no cost to pollution and a second group saying there is a cost to pollution.

Now while the second group all agree there is a cost, there is wide disagreement within the group as to how much the cost is.

But they are all rational men and they will all sit down at the table to discuss and negotiate and eventually reach a consensus, then develop policy.

But, when they sat down at the table to reach consensus and develop policy, they didn't give a seat to anyone from that group who said there was no cost to pollution.

90 posted on 03/18/2012 9:19:09 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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