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Originally Posted by TeresaE
When Henry Ford develop a system to mass produce the automobile, the government didn’t suddenly mandate their use over horses. The switch came about because it was consumer driven. The infrastructure followed. Consumer choice. This should be the same. If electric cars are the way of the future, it should be driven by consumer choice, never by government mandates. If the electric car reaches the usage that the doomsayers think it should, then the government, by the people for the people, can support it though investing in the infrastructure. Yes it’s a chicken and the egg challenge, but private innovations always trump government interference. In other words, if it’s meant to be, let it be our choice. Don’t shove it down our throats as the solution to our alleged ecological doom. After all, what if we have “the science” wrong.
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Remember not long ago Government mandated the elimination of incandescent light bulbs and we were to use CFL (compact fluorescent Light bulbs) but then the unreliability and oh yes Mercury recycling was an unfortunate side effect.
DUHHH.. Of course they knew better than us.