Electric cars are getting as cheap as gasoline rivals

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17. They are not cheaper...they are subsidized

The California state legislature is typical of government getting into prescriptive solutions while lacking the brains to do so efficiently. Electric cars are a dumb idea. They are cheaper only because the industry is forced to sell them so they can sell other cars. This means car buyers have to finance this really dumb idea. How is the electricity generated for these cars? The marginal generation is done using COAL. So, as they say in Indiana, this is all sheer baloney. A much better solution is a hybrid, or a high efficiency diesel with a manual transmission. I drive one and I get 40 miles per gallon. If all of you did the same we could cut our fuel consumption by 30 to 40 % easily. And please stop building those huge houses and drive two miles to the grocery store. I walk to mine and I live in a smallish dwelling. But I do live in Europe, where energy use is more rational.