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Originally Posted by biker1
I don’t know what you define as the “future”. I can imagine a point, perhaps 25 years from now, when you will not be able to purchase a new gas vehicle. That doesn’t mean the gas vehicles will not still be around. The Government will financially incent you to move in the direction they want you to go. Gas might become very expensive and harder to find.
Electricity from the grid, regardless of how it is made, is cleaner than burning gas. Also, electric cars use less total energy than gas cars. EVs typically use about 1/3 the energy per mile as gas cars. They take more energy to manufacture but recoup the energy difference quickly - some estimates put it as after 5000 miles.
Buy one or don’t buy one. Tilt against windmills or don’t tilt against windmills. The Government subsidizes all sorts of things in an attempt to get you to do what they want. They wanted you to get a vaccine so they paid for it. They wanted you to buy a house so they made mortgage interest tax deductible. They want you to invest long term in businesses so they tax the first 80K of long term capital gains at 0%.
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Yeah, it's called social engineering, sadly. The government attempts to change social behavior by providing incentives to change. BOTH parties do it. The sad thing is when social engineering is done to facilitate a politician getting into the office or staying in office, not for the benefit of society.
There are examples of governments doing social engineering that is to benefit society, New Zealand comes to mind as a country that focuses its government on benefiting the people, and not big business. Eisenhower warned us about funding the Military-Industrial Complex, and we ignored him, so we just spent 20 years and $3T subsidizing an industry that focuses on meddling in other countries lives - and not protecting the US, since there are NO countries (other than possibly China) that could threaten the US and expect to survive the action.
But, yes, I agree with your post. And it is a sad post.