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Trump Is Right — Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewable Energy Must End
IBD ^ | December 5,2018 | EDITORIALS

Posted on 12/10/2018 5:57:38 PM PST by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk

Production Tax Credits are what is killing coal and nuclear is insane.
Soon one wind generator will kill a whooping crane.
That will put the left in a death circle.


21 posted on 12/10/2018 6:38:18 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

And the pollution the burning Prius created was likely highly toxic (ie a real pollutant) as opposed to the life-giving CO2 that the commies try to tell is pollution.


22 posted on 12/10/2018 6:39:30 PM PST by nhbob1
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To: Hojczyk
What’s wrong with other tax credits ? Let me know why I can’t keepmore of MY MONEY 💰
23 posted on 12/10/2018 6:42:10 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Hojczyk

If you can afford a Tesla, you don’t need a subsidy (tax break) from me.


24 posted on 12/10/2018 6:43:48 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
Electric cars 🚗 are stupid Solar panels are great Tesla’s are actually cool cars 🚘 The rest suck
25 posted on 12/10/2018 6:44:02 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
So it is like California?

Nope.

Cali air is much cleaner then it used to be even in LA.

China on the other hand is worse than the Eastern Block used to be.

Comes from them being so "Smart".

26 posted on 12/10/2018 6:52:17 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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“How about ethanol...hell cut every subsidy... better yet get rid of everything..that will kill the deep state..”

The Republican House and Senate couldn’t even defund Public Broadcasting and Planned Parenthood. The only thing the Democrats will defund is Defense and border security.

Consider the trillions wasted. Entire departments (Education, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HUD, much of HHS and Energy, need to be on the chopping block. Grants to non-profit social justice and community activist organizations should be eliminated today. Much of that money is funneled back into Democrat campaign coffers. Foreign aid should be slashed. As you said eliminate all subsides which are simply corporate welfare. Defense can be cut be pulling troops deployed around the world home. Let the Europeans defend themselves. The Japanese and Koreans can fund more of their own defense. We need to extract ourselves from the Middle East. Let Europe and China defend the Middle East oil fields. Get our troops out of Africa. If Congress won’t fund the wall bring our troops home and deploy them along the border. We are under invasion and are military is much better used repelling the daily border crossings than fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.


27 posted on 12/10/2018 6:55:18 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on)
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To: Hojczyk

Kill the ethanol and sell the corn to famine regions.


28 posted on 12/10/2018 6:55:27 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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While were at it, get rid of those wind eyesores that kill birds by the thousands. And also the solar plants that mine the sky with hot spots that incinerate birds in flight.


29 posted on 12/10/2018 6:58:38 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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>>>The decision comes after General Motors — the beneficiary of $2,500-$7,000 tax credits for those who buy GM’s plug-in cars, not to mention two separate corporate tax cuts — decided to close five North American plants, leaving 14,700 workers without jobs. The move infuriated Trump.

Verizon just announced today that they are going to lay off 10,000. Should they be prevented from participating in the next spectrum auction?


30 posted on 12/10/2018 7:20:28 PM PST by oincobx
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To: NorthMountain

Mine it.


31 posted on 12/10/2018 7:22:46 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

It’s like California minus the burning trees and brush.


32 posted on 12/10/2018 7:34:50 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Hojczyk

Not to mention the subsidy EV owners receive by not paying liquid fuels taxes...literally taking a free ride on the infrastructure the rest of us pay for.


33 posted on 12/10/2018 7:38:09 PM PST by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: ifinnegan

I understand the hydrogen mines on Jupiter are particularly rich ...


34 posted on 12/10/2018 7:49:58 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Hojczyk

But I want to pay for rich people’s cars!


35 posted on 12/10/2018 8:10:44 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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How is hydrogen produced? What are the effluents from that process?

I'll have a go. Hydrogen is typically gathered from splitting methane, where the by-product is carbon dioxide. So if you have a hydrogen car, you can drive around claiming that you are only emitting water and not adding to "carbon pollution," even though its just a natural gas powered car.

36 posted on 12/10/2018 8:15:53 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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where the by-product is carbon dioxide.

Oh, NOES!!! A GREENHOUSE GAS!!! Think of the Polar Bears!

37 posted on 12/10/2018 8:20:43 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Yes. Jupiter, Neptune.

Biosynthetic is another means.


38 posted on 12/10/2018 9:09:19 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Hojczyk

The honest truth is ending subsidies would be the best thing that ever happened to electric cars. The market is the most efficient laboratory. We’d have ones that make sense or not at all. It’s this halfway stuff that’s a killer.


39 posted on 12/10/2018 9:16:42 PM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

If an electric car were as cheap as my truck, would drive 500 miles and could recharge in ten minutes I would buy it.

It will not do any of the above. It is an economic aberration driven by government subsidies. Electrics perhaps will have a place in short trips but you will still need that gasoline or diesel fueled vehicle for long trips. Relative to short trips, it must be competitive without subsides or it is economic garbage. One must always remember that 63% of all our electricity is generated by carbon sourced fuel. That electric car is not carbon neutral. Most of these electric cars are light of weight to achieve modest ranges least their batteries run out of electrons.

In a head to head competition of equal weights and towing capacity they are just as energy consuming in relationship to carbon emissions. Electric cars are an environmental fraud subsidized by our tax dollars.


40 posted on 12/10/2018 10:57:42 PM PST by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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