Posted on 04/29/2024 9:05:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One strategy for state officials looking to transition Washington’s transportation sector to electric vehicles is by subsidizing them with taxpayer dollars.
This week, Gov. Jay Inslee announced $45 million in subsidies through a Department of Commerce grant program for families deemed “low-income” to purchase an EV.
“Washingtonians really get it when it comes to electric vehicles,” Inslee said at a Wednesday news conference in Tukwila.
The program provides up to $9,000 for families to lease an EV, or $5,000 to purchase one. The grant program allows them to purchase either new or used EVs. The funding would be available to those who make 300% of the federal poverty level or less. And the grant will only stretch to about 9,000 people, if they all take the $5,000 deal being offered, or 5,000 people taking the $9,000 deal.
Inslee described it as a way to “democratize EVs. We’re not stopping here. We want to help the entire ecosystem, if you will, of electrifying our transportation fleet. We expect there are going to be a lot of folks that are going to be enjoying this benefit.”
Subsidies has been one recommendation made in the Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council’s transportation electrification strategy, in which residents would receive public dollars in exchange for giving up a fossil fuel vehicle to purchase an EV.
Inslee described it as a way to “democratize EVs. We’re not stopping here. We want to help the entire ecosystem, if you will, of electrifying our transportation fleet. We expect there are going to be a lot of folks that are going to be enjoying this benefit.”
The program has drawn criticism, including from Washington Policy Center Environmental Director Todd Myers. In a blog post, he argued that the subsidies won’t help reduce carbon emissions and is a waste of taxpayer money better spent on other environmental priorities, such as salmon recovery.
“This is one more example of how wasteful and ineffective Washington’s climate policy is,” he wrote. “It also reveals the disingenuousness of claiming that climate change is an ‘existential crisis’ while wasting tens of millions of dollars on projects that do nothing to address that crisis.”
The grant funds will be available to qualifying low-income residents in August.
SOME ONE NEEDS TO SUE THIS IDIOT
“YOU get a new car, and YOU get a new car...and so do YOU!!!”
What climate crisis? I don’t see a crisis.
The crisis I do see is the out of control spending and the lack of a border - not to mention the government promoting the mutilation of the children.
dont low income residents usually live in apartments?
how does that work?
Do they have enough windmills and solar so they can take out Grand Coulee, et.al., and free the Columbia?
Are you suggesting that apartment-dwellers have no need of a motor vehicle?
Regards,
I swear that bozo has been governor there for like 24 years.
No, just that apartments usually have no way to charge an electric vehicle.
How long will it be before the EVs are stolen from the parking lots of low-rent housing where the low-income residents live?
-PJ
That’s why Washington state is being run into the ground too. Same mentality as many poor people.
I just looked it up. For a base Tesla a three year lease is $330 a month. That price includes the EXISTING $7,500 federal tax payer rebate. One also has to put down $4,500.
So after three years you pay $16,500 for the car. Minus $9,000 of state tax payer’s money is $7,500 to have a car for 3 years.
I’ve never understood leasing a car, but there must be good reasons to do so in some circumstances.
Oh. Inslee has been pushing the transit system in Seattle and the suburbs (billions of dollars) in the name of climate change and “equality” of movement.
$5000.00 wouldn’t buy the spare tire for a Tesla. What a joke.
Forrest Gump said it well. “Stupid is as stupid does.”
As opposed to single-family dwellings?!
Regards,
Already in WA state we can get a rebate for the devoted EV chargers, and if you are poor they will rebate up to $2,000 for a new charger.
I doubt that will work in an apartment complex. At my MIL condo they have outdoor parking. I noticed one EV in the carport that covers 8 cars. It was parked at the end and using the double outlet which serves the entire carport.
I just looked it up - an overnight charge on a standard outlet will provide 30 to 40 miles of travel the next day. That would probably be doable for a lot of people. I’m not sure if a multi-strip and extension cords would be the best idea to add more than two EVs to the outlet.
Okay - just looked that up. According to the interwebs, one EV draws at 12 amps (or about 12 old-school 150 Watt light bulbs. So one EV is pushing close to a typical 15 amp circuit.
The Washington Dems have raised our property taxes and are spending what they received on do-nothing programs.
dont low income residents usually live in apartments?
how does that work?
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exactly
and 5k ?
that might buy the ev wheels and tires
low income qualifying
for a 70k + ev loan ?
never happen.
It’s like the EV version of “Cash for Clunkers” Obama 2.0
next step is paying off their loan like student loans
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