Re: [DMCForum] Re: electric vehicles...

[Ryan Wright <ryanpwright@xxxxxxxxx>]

They won't add taxes - it's too hard to regulate. Instead, they'll do
something really asinine like they've done in Europe: Simply make it
illegal to use alternative fuels. As I understand it, they have
special police over there whose primary job is to go around looking
for violators. If your exhaust smells like french fries, you go to
jail. See, you're not a patriot trying to do your part for the
environment, you're a dirty thief "stealing tax revenue" from the
government.

It's backwards, self serving, idiotic thinking - exactly what you'd
expect from a politician.

Mark my words: As the energy crisis grows, more and more people will
switch to alternative fuels. And when that happens, these laws will be
passed before the public even knows what hit them. What, you think Big
Oil is going to roll over and let people innovate them out of
existance?

-Ryan

On 8/30/05, doctorDHD@xxxxxxx <doctorDHD@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> How long do you think it will take for some politician to figure out that
> people are running around with electric cars and start to add road taxes on the
> electricity used to charge those cars and make it a crime of course to try to
>  avoid those taxes like the tax on diesel fuel vs. home heating oil.
> 
> I know it may be difficult to dye electric car electrons red but I bet the
> oil and car companies will invest millions on how to do just that instead of
> developing a totally electric vehicle.
>

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