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Originally Posted by Revo1
Sounds like it's back to the drawing board for GM... That's a major selling point down the drain for this car.
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Originally Posted by rmnc3r
Another way to look at it is "not tax-payer subsidized"; one less reason for me to pay more in taxes so someone else can get a break. True environmentalist should pay full price for their folly, and not force unwilling tax payers to foot part of their bill.
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Adding irony to the insult, there are probably several hybrid SUVs that are much less fuel efficient than the Volt that do qualify, right?
Of course, that misses the more important point that governments shouldn't be subsidizing anything. Why should I have to subsidize the novelties of environmentalists, which I myself could not afford, and whom have a much higher income? If a product can succeed without subsidy, why should it be subsidized? If it can not succeed without subsidy, why should it be in production?
It is exactly this type of choosing of winners and losers by regulators that has given us the ethanol scourge, except now it's grown to include the entire car, not just the fuel.