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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (631149)10/10/2011 5:26:48 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1579905
 
>>> Its a new industry that cuts our dependency on oil and benefits the environment. Why not encourage the industry as much as possible?

In that case, why limit the payment arbitrarily to a few thousand dollars?

Why not just agree that when someone wants a new car if they'll get a Volt, the government will just buy it for them outright? Wouldn't that provide even more benefits for our environment and reduce our dependency on foreign oil even more?

The answer, of course, is that that would be 4x or 5x more stupid than paying for 1/4 or 1/5 of the cost. These vehicles cannot and will never have a material impact on our oil dependency.
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