Republican introduces new bill to end the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric cars

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31. I'm not rich and that subsidy helped me afford an electric car

A lot of people such as myself are buying electric cars other than Tesla. I'm a huge proponent of mass transit, but if we must have cars, electric cars are much cleaner. We need to subsidize the cars along with charging networks to get ourselves off of oil.

Electricity is overwhelming made by burning dangerous fossil fuels, and thus electric cars, since they waste energy produced by burning dangerous fossil fuels make things worse, not better.

That's myth promoted by fossil fuel companies. If you create the electricity with coal and put it in an electric car, the amount of pollution will still be less than if you burned gasoline in the same size car. On top of that, it is easier to contain and/or scrub the carbon from a centralized plant than multiple vehicles.

That said, coal/oil still needs to go away. The real benefit to electric cars is that they decouple the fuel source from the vehicle, so you can wean yourself off of fossil fuels completely. Your city could generate power from solar, wind, or any number of non-fossil fuel sources in order to clean up the vehicles. You could also put solar panels on your roof and ditch coal completely on your own.