I am in no way opposed to the inclusion of EV's into the personal transportation market. BUT I am deeply disturbed with the outlandish promotion and financial subsidizing of EV's by the US and other government entities. Here are 3 of my reasons. (1) My tax dollars are being giving away as tax credits for those purchasing a new EV. Seems like welfare for the wealthy to me. (2) In my state (Tennessee) and probably most, if not all, other states and at the national level a sizeable tax is added to my purchase of gasoline and diesel fuel for the purported purpose of highway construction/maintenance. The users of EV's are not paying any such equivalent tax but they have free access to the highways. (3) The feds and pseudo-government (e.g. the TVA) are already and are accelerating the installation of charging stations along public highways at taxpayer expense. I will approve of this when I get a gas station installed down the road from me at government expense. In other words, these entities are competing against the private owners of gas stations. Unfortunately this is just another LARGE example of the state and federal governments picking winners and losers. It is time to stop this nonsense.
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