[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Before I comment, I want to remind everyone how expensive flammable materials are (as I don't have a flame suit handy).

Lutz is right -- or he's at least less wrong than Washington policy makers. If the objective is to reduce fossil fuel use in automobiles; then raising gas taxes is the least bad way to go about it. The COFE regulations are probably the worst -- and subsidies for alternative fuels (including EVs) are a close second for worst "solution". ("Solution" is in scare quotes, because you need an actual problem, before you have a solution.) Using every government power available to thwart development of domestic energy sources is a whole other category of very bad "solutions".

[tell me]

The objective is to line the pockets of electric car investors with US taxpayer dollars so they can turn around and send it back to their cronies in DC in the form of campaign contributions.

[SaraJohnson]

Higher taxes won’t stop the radicals from limiting the availability of energy supplies.

[Little Ray]

Since those people in Washington don’t have any business deciding how we power our transportation, he’s wrong and so are you.