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    Default EVs are becoming more affordable and will cost less than ICE vehicles soon.

    Isn't this great news. One day, the Poorly-educated TrumpTards will be able to afford EVs. God bless President Biden.

    If ever there was a time to want to be driving an electric car, it may have been last week — after the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack forced the company to take some of its systems offline. Fuel shortages resulting from the attack caused panic in parts of the country, with residents lining up at the pump, causing gas prices to spike.
    Long lines, high gas prices and short tempers are frustrations that electric vehicle owners like Kathleen Biggins are glad they don't have to deal with.
    "My son noted that 'Mom, we have your car. We don't need to be so worried,'" she told CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli.
    Biggins said she feels secure as she watched the gas shortage unfold across the country and watched the lines at gas stations get longer.
    "I feel much more secure, that I have control, right, in my own home of powering up my car and that I am not at the vagaries of the oil and gas market," she said.
    For the 99% who are not driving electric vehicles, the spike in fuel demand pushed prices up across the country. But with the average sticker price on an electric car $19,000 higher than a gas-powered vehicle, many do not see it as a viable option.
    Biggins, however, said the investment pays off long-term.
    "In general, it's much cheaper to fuel your car to electricity than it is to gas," she said.
    According to a Consumer Reports analysis of EVs, fuel savings alone can be more than $4,700 over the first seven years of ownership. With only 20 moving parts in an electric car, maintenance savings over the lifetime of the vehicle can range from $6,000 to $10,000.
    Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and sustainability expert, said some direct tax rebates or other subsidies could help with upfront costs.
    He said the savings will really mount as the industry scales up, and he expects the total cost of EVs to fall below gas-powered vehicles in just two to three years.
    "This cost decline that's been underway is going to continue and the fact of the matter is we're not going to have that much choice because all of the manufacturing companies are now looking at Tesla and say, 'Hey, we're going that way, too," he said.
    The necessary shift was further highlighted this past week from a national security perspective. The kind of hack that happened to the Colonial Pipeline could also happen to an electrical grid.
    "This isn't a physical hack of a pipeline; it's a digital hack. And so there really are concerns, no matter what kind of vehicles and what kind of energy system," Sachs said. "But what I do think is true is that the national security of a renewable energy system, which is home-based, renewable energy, not dependent on the vagaries of international markets, Middle East wars, Middle East boycotts, and geopolitical crises — that's going to be a lot better in the future."
    There's a policy promise on the horizon. The Biden administration pledged $15 billion to build 500,000 charging stations nationwide, and the number of EV models available in the U.S. is expected to triple in the next three years.
    "Even if the costs were a disadvantage, we'd have to do it because of climate risks. Thank goodness it's going to be a great bargain anyway; I think it's pretty much a no-brainer."
    In just the last 10 years, battery prices have dropped by as much as 90%. They're dropping so fast that analysts say the purchase price of EVs will fall below that of gas-powered vehicles in the next two to four years.
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    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Oh well, guess we don’t need the New Green Marxist bill after all.

    We seem to be transitioning just nicely without government action.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Oh well, guess we don’t need the New Green Marxist bill after all.

    We seem to be transitioning just nicely without government action.
    I know being a right winger how low IQ and opioid addicted you are but the fact is they're actually is still a tax credit for them
    Why Biden? Because Fuck You that's why. Barack Obama has a Grammy, an Emmy, a Nobel Prize, 2 terms as President and a Twitter account.

    Donald Trump has 2 impeachments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Oh well, guess we don’t need the New Green Marxist bill after all.

    We seem to be transitioning just nicely without government action.
    Plus I get Biden's EV tax break. God bless President Biden.
    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Plus I get Biden's EV tax break. God bless President Biden.
    Both Amazon and the post office are going full electric

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    And 100% reliant in Bugistan for rare earths and manufacturing. Yay!
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    And 100% reliant in Bugistan for rare earths and manufacturing. Yay!
    Would you rather be reliant on the Middle East for petrol?
    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Plus I get Biden's EV tax break. God bless President Biden.
    Well, aren’t you just special lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    And 100% reliant in Bugistan for rare earths and manufacturing. Yay!
    You being a shill for the Saudi royal family is disgusting
    Why Biden? Because Fuck You that's why. Barack Obama has a Grammy, an Emmy, a Nobel Prize, 2 terms as President and a Twitter account.

    Donald Trump has 2 impeachments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Well, aren’t you just special lol.
    Don't give up hope. Maybe one day, you will be able to afford one. But you'll have to upgrade that Target Stock Boy job first.

    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Would you rather be reliant on the Middle East for petrol?
    We aren't and never were...?

    I guess we would be shutting down all our vast oil fields too, those aren't any more friendly than mining so energy independence is just a fantasy, but it'd be nice if we made SOMETHING here other than corn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    You being a shill for the Saudi royal family is disgusting
    Ok bug lover.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Don't give up hope. Maybe one day, you will be able to afford one. But you'll have to upgrade that Target Stock Boy job first.

    I like a sweet exhaust sound in a vehicle.
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    Internal combustion engines have served us well since the 1890s.
    That was a long time ago, and it's probably time to replace them for multiple reasons.
    When we've got the battery and charging issues better resolved, we will. That's probably imminent.
    Progress moves slowly but forward nonetheless.

    More important to me is getting rid of the tall fucking head restraints so I can wear my fedoras again.
    I'd like to take a fucking hammer to the asshole who came up with those.
    I've got expensive Borsalinos that I can't wear in the car because of those fucking head restraints.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    We aren't and never were...?

    I guess we would be shutting down all our vast oil fields too, those aren't any more friendly than mining so energy independence is just a fantasy, but it'd be nice if we made SOMETHING here other than corn.
    I guess you weren't alive during the 1970's gas crisis. If you were, you never would've made such a dumb statement.
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