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Environment & Energy

mac2766

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4. No. That would kill the economy.

Reply to MichMan (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 6, 2021, 11:45 AM

Apr 2021

Not until EVs are cheap and we're using them as a society should we over-tax the American population with additional taxes.

What you're proposing is yet another tax on the poor. What we need to do is reduce the grotesque amounts of money going to the wealthy.

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Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP

"ultimately hitting Republican roadblocks" - must not have had 50 democratic votes PoliticAverse Apr 2021 #1

I've googled total subsidies given to fossil fuel and never could find a bottom line. Suspicious!!! Karadeniz Apr 2021 #2

Just raise gas taxes by a couple dollars a gallon MichMan Apr 2021 #3

No. That would kill the economy. mac2766 Apr 2021 #4

How long do you think we should wait to adress climate change? MichMan Apr 2021 #5

The OPs statement was related to subsidies. mac2766 Apr 2021 #6

I am enough of a realist to understand that people will continue to buy large ICE vehicles MichMan Apr 2021 #7

Ford is coming out with EVs in a big way over the next mac2766 Apr 2021 #8