Thank you Charles Krauthammer:
Sen. Charles Schumer, the noted automotive engineer, declared "unacceptable" last week "a business model based on gas." Instead, "We need a business model based on cars of the future, and we already know what that future is: the plug-in hybrid electric car."The Chevy Volt, for example? It has huge remaining technological hurdles, gets 40 miles on a charge and will sell for about $40,000, necessitating a $7,500 outright government subsidy. Who but the rich and politically correct will choose that over a $12,000 gas-powered Hyundai? The new Detroit churning out Schumer-mobiles will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency.
It's not even how wrong Schumer is that gets me, it's the arrogance. Read the whole column.
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The government should realize that being environmentally conscious is the way of the future by giving MUCH LARGER subsidies to people deciding to by alternative energy fueled cars. No American is going to agree to spending 40,000 when a car can be bought for 12,000, especially in this economy. Any lefty illuminati who thinks otherwise needs to take a walk to the middle class area of their town and have a good long look around.
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