Are there any additional policies you have in mind to help level the playing field?
Sent from my iPhone > On May 6, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Ben Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 6, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Presumably more choices will mean more cars. One size never fits all. > > And there's another factor. Our market is capitalistic, yes, but far from an > actual free market. This is a good thing; monopolies are an inevitable result > of a free market, and monopolies are bad for everybody but the monopolists. > > But that means that we wind up tipping the scales in various ways. We've > tipped the scales an awful lot in favor of ICE vehicles, so it's only fair to > tip the scales a bit in favor of electric vehicles as well. > > It's only taken a very little bit of said tipping to create huge successes > for electric vehicles, which should be a rather good indicator that electric > vehicles are superior to their ICE counterparts. The rational thing would be > to keep tipping those scales until the electrics are no longer at a relative > disadvantage compared with all the support ICEs get. > > Again...anybody else remember the automotive industry bailout, or the > trillions we spend on wars overseas primarily in strategically critical > oil-producing regions? If a few piddling little compliance laws can do what > they've done in the face of that huge advantage ICEs get, imagine what it'd > be like "all else being equal." > > b& _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
