Brewha wrote:You should know that we all pay taxes that get used for a large number of different things that we don't personally use.
If I never bought gas, should my taxes subsidize Exxon? Yes, if it is in the overall interest of my country.
Should I complain about my tax dollars going to things I do not use? Maybe - it's the voting process and politics of what is best for the country. And no one - on one - is 100% happy about how taxes are spent.
So, you choose not to benefit from Green tax subsidies. Please, cry us all a river.
Just be judicious about it; you would not want to look like someone who cares exclusively about themselves - or would you?
Once again, you are missing the point. This is not about taxes, that's a different topic. The charges I'm referring to are above and beyond taxes. My taxes that I pay have those subsidies rolled into them. This is an individual company (not the government) adding additional charges above and beyond taxes for products and/or services that I don't use.
Let's try this again. Say you order a plain cheese pizza, you pick it up and pay with cash. You look at your bill and you are charged for some pepperoni, some mushrooms, and a credit card service charge. Neither of those are contained in the product or service that you purchased. You are OK with paying for those charges?
Plus, you can stop with all that green infinitives BS about how EVs are an important positive step in that direction. There are plenty of examples out there and posted here showing that it is just smoke and mirrors. If you look at the entire life cycle from mining the supplies from the Earth all the way through to the death of the vehicle, the infrastructure needed to meet the pie in the sky goals and so on - it's actually a negative impact with our current technology and anticipated technology advances in our lifetime. Just set the goal/mandates and hope a miracle happens to achieve them.
It's great to set (arbitrary) goals but if there is no real world way of obtaining those goals it's all for naught.