[MurryMom]

If President Gore had made the exact same proposal this article would never have been written.

History tells us otherwise. Gregg Easterbrook pointed out in this article that he also criticized the Clinton-Gore administration for their automobile policies just before the 2000 election, as follows: The supercar effort, which ended up spending $1.6 billion to accomplish nothing (see "Political Mileage," by Gregg Easterbrook, October 9, 2000), was always a smoke screen. By linking to Mr. Easterbrook's 2000 article, you will learn that Mr. Easterbrook is mainly an enemy of bad policy, not an enemy of Bush per se.

[from occupied ga]

Billions have been spent on trying to make a viable electric vehicle. Big waste of money. At least a significant portion of it was paid for by the electric company stockholders (who had their dividends reduced by the amount of money wated on this)

Still a large chunk was taxpayer funded and to what end? There aren't any electric cars on the market that are worth a crap. The true cost per is supposedly over $100,000 each (although the cost for lease purposes is set to mid $30k)

I smell corporate welfare.