Wow, that’s a long way around the bend.
The Military exists to protect the American People and our Interests. Their role has nothing to do with the subject of this Thread.
Your reply has nothing to do with the Government handing out MY Cash to somebody because they bought a certain kind of Car. The product costs what it costs, and if you can afford it, go for it. It isn’t the Governments business.
The Government is going out of its way to promote one Company’s Product over another Company’s product, period.
Sounds like Crony Capitalism to me.
I guess they should hand out MY Cash to people who buy that new Hybrid Porsche or that new Hybrid BMW that cost over $250,000 each. Heck, they’re already handing out MY cash using the EITC to people who have Kids and can’t afford them, so what the heck.
Sorry my Friend, we are looking at the same situation through different lenses.
While usually the military is used to protect life and liberty, sometimes our interests have more to do with our pocketbooks. I don't think anyone, including yourself, would argue that the Gulf War was about anything other than oil.
How can you ignore the cost in blood and treasure? You keep talking about “MY Cash” without realizing that the amount of your cash that is spent on electric vehicles is microscopic compared to the amount of your cash that is spent protecting oil supplies.
My rough, back-of-the-envelope calculation puts EV subsidies at around $9 per taxpayer per year ($6.5 billion divided by six years divided by 120 million taxpayers). If I remember correctly, about half our budget is spent on defense and RAND (hardly a liberal organization by any stretch of the imagination) says that at least 12% of our military spending could be saved if we didn't have to worry about securing Persian Gulf oil supplies.
So what is 6% (50% times 12%) of your federal taxes last year? Compare that to the $9 that you are concerned about. These are rough estimates, but it gives you just an idea of the scale that we are talking about.
Like George W. Bush said in his 2006 State of the Union, “Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper and more reliable alternative energy sources. And we are on the threshold of incredible advances.”
Few people on FR realize that it was GWB who signed the $7,500 federal EV rebate into law. It has nothing to do with Solyndra or "winners and losers" and has everything to with saving our blood and mountains of our treasure.