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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (228149)4/7/2005 12:41:04 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573910
 
You are assuming an equivalent size car. A hybrid might replace a large SUV, and be cheaper to produce.

Yes I am making that assumption and it is a very reasonable one to make. If people really wanted the smaller cars they would have bought them. They buy the SUVs because that is what they want. Push them to buy something else and the fact that they have to settle for their second or third (or 48th) alternative is itself a cost to them. It can be argued that the benefits outweigh the costs but even if they do the costs still have to be considered.

Also if the incentive is for all hybrids then people will be buying large hybrid cars, hybrid SUVs, hybrids sports cars, ect.

If you want to make the incentive just for small cheap hybrids then you are changing the scenario. And also you have to compare the costs not just to the current situation, but to the situation where people replace current conventional cars with smaller conventional cars.

If you want to talk about the benefits and costs of hybrids than you should talk about those benefits and costs, not the benefits and costs of other changes that can be implemented separately from a move to hybrid technology, esp when hybrid technology can also be implemented separately.

Tim
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