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Old 05-18-2023, 02:45 PM   #730
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Originally Posted by Wyzz Kydd View Post
The stick portion is used at both the purchaser and manufacturer level. At the purchaser level you have gas guzzler taxes, fuel taxes, emissions tests, a plethora of ways that the government charges the consumer for using an ICE vehicle. At the manufacturer level you have ever increasing fuel efficiency standards. I believe the new light to medium duty standards are set to escalate so high that by 2027 or 2028 it will be impractical to manufacture and sell ICE vehicles. There's no need to make people buy BEV if you eliminate everything else.
Everything you said there is correct, but keep in mind every one of those sticks existed before electric vehicles became a thing. Electric vehicles aren’t the cause of all of those penalties, they are the result.
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