IRS should cancel tax credits on gas guzzler "hybrids"

Nomen Nescio · 2005-07-17T16:40:03+00:00

What a ripoff to we taxpayers who pay extra taxes so tax giveaways aregiven to rich people who buy expensive hybrids that actually guzzle moregasoline than regular cars you and I are destined to purchase! Write yourCongressperson today and tell her/him just how you feel about getting theshaft without the benefit of K-Y Jelly. If a hybrid doesn't get at least15% better gas economy, than it does with its battery removed, tax itdouble for extra damage it does to the economy and Nation by using a lot ofcontaminating elements in it's battery pak.

Jul 17, 2005 62 Replies

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Ted Mittelstaedt 20 years ago

Um, plenty of motorcycles out there allowed to be on the roads - the government couldn't possibly consider a Samurai safer than a Kawasaki.

I think the real problem is that ZAP got their 10 year exclusive distributorship before fuel prices went through the roof and everybody suddenly fell out of love with the SUV. At the time Smart probably figured they would be lucky to sell a thousand vehicles a year in the US. If Smart hadn't signed that deal and was looking to come into the US market today, their expectations would be far different and they would never have agreed to that deal.

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dold 20 years ago

That's a little too conspiratorial for me. The manufacturer has to submit cars for testing, which is too expensive if Daimler thinks it won't sell in the US. I doubt that the testing agency would ever refuse to test a car from a major manufacturer.

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dold 20 years ago

I remember them un-fondly from a few years ago, when I was thinking of getting an electric motorcycle. But, they are in the news again today.

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"_The tiniest cars money can't buy_"

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