Who Pays For Electric Cars? You Do, Even Though You Don't Own One.
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 6 months ago to Politics
"When the only way you can get people to buy what you’re selling is to pay them to buy it, it’s time to reconsider making what you’re selling.
Unless, of course, you can force someone else to pay for it.
In the oddball past, businesses had to succeed or fail based on their being able to sell things people wanted to buy at a price they were willing to pay. But the electric car business is a political business and grubby old things like that are no longer considered.
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t’s all of us – who will be bled to keep the EV alive. At least until the privately owned car is dead, for the majority of us. This being the political reason for “the effort to accelerate electric vehicle transportation throughout the U.S.”
It’s not stated that way, of course. But it’s academic. People in the main aren’t able to afford electric cars, leaving aside the question of their very dubious merits as cars. Nissan – and the rest – cannot afford to continue giving them away (even Tesla is discounting its cars – twice in the past month alone).
The government can – and will, if the Green New Deal becomes policy, as the Hair Plugged Man has promised it will – insist that people drive electric cars. It will regulate non-electric cars off the market or make them just as unaffordable as electric cars – perhaps even less affordable, as the Chinese have done via exorbitantly priced registration/license fees for non-electric cars."
Unless, of course, you can force someone else to pay for it.
In the oddball past, businesses had to succeed or fail based on their being able to sell things people wanted to buy at a price they were willing to pay. But the electric car business is a political business and grubby old things like that are no longer considered.
...
t’s all of us – who will be bled to keep the EV alive. At least until the privately owned car is dead, for the majority of us. This being the political reason for “the effort to accelerate electric vehicle transportation throughout the U.S.”
It’s not stated that way, of course. But it’s academic. People in the main aren’t able to afford electric cars, leaving aside the question of their very dubious merits as cars. Nissan – and the rest – cannot afford to continue giving them away (even Tesla is discounting its cars – twice in the past month alone).
The government can – and will, if the Green New Deal becomes policy, as the Hair Plugged Man has promised it will – insist that people drive electric cars. It will regulate non-electric cars off the market or make them just as unaffordable as electric cars – perhaps even less affordable, as the Chinese have done via exorbitantly priced registration/license fees for non-electric cars."
the golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules.....