Why can't the War Powers include manufacturing affordable electric cars?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I can afford the gas.

What I cannot afford is the insane price for an electric vehicle. Which is generally vastly more than many years of gas, even with rising gas prices.

Let me put it this way. I have always paid cash for my cars, after my very first one. Not having a car payment has been very freeing.

A personal story here. I was an airline ticket agent in the 1970s, and made huge use of the travel benefits we got. Free, or very, very low cost tickets and we mostly flew in first class. Our pay scales were open knowledge. If you knew how long someone had worked for a particular airline, you knew how much money they made. Of course working afternoon shift paid more, as did working overtime or holidays or on Sunday. More than once in that time period a fellow employee would ask me, in tones of great puzzlement (remember, they knew how much I earned) "How can you afford to travel so much?" I invariably responded, "I don't own a car."

I have always driven very fuel efficient cars. My first two were VW Beetles. My current car is a Honda Fit (remember, no car payment as I always pay cash) which gets 35-42 mpg depending on road conditions. On a recent trip to Kansas City I was getting 42 mpg. Hardly a record, but not bad.

So, no thank you to installments.