During a June 10 rally in Atlanta, Trump derided a series of Democrat policies offering tax handouts and other incentives for relatively novel EVs.
“That certainly will be ending on day one,” Trump said to a round of applause from his supporters.
Interesting strategy.
Imagine you own a patent on the gas pump.
Imagine you own a patent on the gas pump AND you gave yourself exclusive manufacturing rights. (You own the only company in the world allowed to make gas pumps.)
Even if you never made or sold a car, you’d make a lot of money.
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Wow, it should is profitable to get government grants to become the front-runner in EVs.
(Just one of the many reasons governments should stick to things like a broad neutral carbon tax instead of subsidizing one guy’s company and allowing/outlawing pipelines on “him-not-you” basis)
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Imagine there’s no Teslas,
It isn’t hard to do,
No smug pollution from EV drivers,
Or hybrid drivers too,
Imagine all the environmentalists,
Not mucking everything up?
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one,
I hope today you eat beef,
And your air conditioning runs
I would love to see how they are going to set power stations along all the various residential neighborhoods, home and apartments in the inner city neighborhoods?
For anyone who lives in or visits inner cities and sees all the cars parked on the streets realizes the incredible and impractical difficulty of how to charge all those vehicles.
Just imagine all those 8-guage extension cords running across the sidewalks. 
Sounds like harvest season in a copper field.
In the cites it’s literally bumper to bumper cars parked on the streets up and down the sidewalks! There’s no where to park on most days! I guess that they will have to remove all the trees on the edges of the sidewalks to install charging stations for all the cars? 
Just think of all the income a city could generate with that.
Not that I’m for it, but the possibilities are fascinating.
As batteries need replacement and you find that the current technology no longer supports your old technology…or the cost exceeds the car’s value and you decide to junk it…consider how much pollution you actually created by buying into this foolishness.
If you want to actually help in the reduction of pollution across the globe, Smyrna recommends you buy an old Buick LeSabre, Park Avenue or a Century. They were driven by l’il ole people who serviced it regularly, the young people don’t buy them so that it’s the best value out there plus…they’re dependable for over 200,000 miles. 
And you sir know a thing or two about cars (not being sarcastic I know thats your wheelhouse)
Buick … stereotype: grandparents
… also seen it called “the last car you will own”.
Hmmm … I drive a Toyota Tacoma. Considering my age (76,) the fact that the truck is 12 years old and has never had a mechanical failure, and that I typically have driven vehicles for 20-25 years before replacing them, it’s probably the last car I will own. Or as my daughter likes to say, the last one she will let me drive. She told me to be suspicious if she ever tries to convince me to buy a Maserati.
That’s a logical choice by where you live, the truck’s noted dependability and the resale value when you’re done with it.
GM defends that stereotype with their slogan, “where’s the Buick”. That’s pure stupid. Take the stereotype you noted in a scenario with a grandfather driving his young granddaughter and let her ask, “grandpa…why do you always drive Buicks”? I’d have him answer it with Buick’s great strengths of reliability and dependability as they drive by a broken down car along the side of the road. The beauty of today’s Buick sells itself. The whole thing reminds me of, “this is not your father’s Oldsmobile”…and where’s Oldsmobile today?
Hell one of my favorite car families are stereotyped as “old folks cars.”
Ford’s Panther cars, the Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, and Lincoln Towncar.
I absolutely adore those cars and it’s the car I tend to recommend to people who want something bigger than a Camry.
They got decent fuel economy, they are very reliable, and working in the aftermarket parts industry I can confirm that they are DIRT cheap to source parts for.
I miss my Towncar every day. I need to get another one as a daily driver but unfortunately the used market is still stupid.
Dude what was that trim level of Buick Lucerne that came with the LS4 back around 2006 till about 2008?
Sister car to the Impala SS and Pontiac Grand Prix GXP. Man that car was wild. All of those cars were wild.
“Let’s cram a 5.3L V8 in this FWD platform that was designed for V6s.”
GM’s engineers were so crazy back in that time. Doing all kind of crazy stuff. Like the HHR SS, which could dust LS2 Corvettes and GTOs to 60 miles per hour.
I miss that era of GM. It’s almost like corporate looked away and let the engineers just be buck wild for a few years.
I’ve never seen anything like it. One of the huge problems I see coming up is from dealers competing for those used cars during this pandemic and driving the prices sky high. Banks had to readjust loan values and extend terms to get payments right for those who purchased them. The market though…does not change over the long run. A car depreciates approximately 25% per year. Year two would be 75% of last year’s 75% and this continues for the life of the car. During this pandemic, the values were artificially inflated and those who purchased them…are BURIED now. New car inventories are returning nationwide and this is lowering the values of used. When the manufacturers begin rebates again, this will accelerate the depreciation of those cars and I see repossessions and huge losses for them and banks coming very soon.
