The government of Ontario will now give away free money to people who buy electric cars.
These are luxury vehicles bought almost exclusively by rich snobs them to signal how virtuous they are.
No one real buys electric cars, because they don’t work. They have an extremely limited mileage, for one thing. Or, they cheat: they have two engines, an electric one and a gas one, like the Prius.
As for Tesla, it isn’t a car company. It’s a PR company that happens to sell a few cars. (And you can’t take them on the highway, or your battery will die...)
But so what? Kathleen Wynne loves them and is giving your money away to people who drive them.
Tesla buyers will get $3,000, thanks to you.
And they'll get up to ten grand for buying other, crummier electric cars.
I guess it’s more fun to give money to rich show-offs and tap into Tesla’s cool image, than to talk about serious things, like taxes, debt, and the continent’s highest electricity prices.
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If you are worried about your footprint just support Alberta Oil & drive an efficient regular car . . .
These are FACTS not BS.
I was reading on up the page and I came to Paul Belangers and his article made me think of MadMax ,then I came to your place and you nailed it——-too funny!!
If the Ontarian liberals are giving grants to buy electric cars, there will be less gasoline being bought which means the government will have less money from petro taxes. Wouldn’t one question where they will make up the short fall?
Liberals are the masters of deception, have to give credit where credit is due. If you live in Ontario you might want to ask this question.
Why you Are not a businessman. After the cost of production of course there is little left of the 5 billion dollars.
“you cant drive a Tesla on the highway or they die? what kind of BS comment is that? you clearly have no clue WTF you are talking about. People have already driven across the united states, LA to NY in less than 3 days, so most certainly you can. "
This is possible only because of the limited amount of Tesla and other electric vehicles on the road. Once you have 50,000,000 electrics on the roads you will be waiting three days just to get a recharge or battery swap.
When all the hype concerning the “new green energy crap” fades and reality sets in as it ages and you have hundreds of thousands of poorly maintained wind generators and solar stations/panels all over the nation, failing and in need of repair. blah!
They did that by likely replacing batteries several times a day at or near the car’s maximum distance. I could not do that as the infrastructure does NOT exist.
The Fact that electric cars and hybrids take much more out of the environment to build they is another concern. They are far from “Green” . . . and unless you are using it for a Taxi . . . is is difficult to make a cost benefit conclusion for the average consumer.
they only sold 50,000? you even said yourself they cost 100K, selling 50,000 vehicles at 100K each gives you 5 billion dollars, you clearly cant do any basic math.
the tesla outsold every single class competitor in the US for 2015
Audi A7, A8, BMW 6 and 7 series, Jag XJ, Lexus LS, MB CLS and S class, porsche panemera.
this is possibly the most stupid video and uninformed video i have ever seen in my life.
I had typically 3 tanks which were heavy and changed the handling characteristics OT the vehicles. I saved about 40% using natural gas but it was a pain and I had to switch to gas as they were all dual fuel. You also lost a lot of power.
Before I retired the TDI saved me $3000 a year in fuel costs. Electric is a risky move and would take more the $10000 to get me into one.
http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/tag/mike-crawley/
https://yourwardnews.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/liberal-hack-mike-crawley-exposed/
Only liberals benefit from liberal policies.
The rest of us pay for a lifetime while liberals win the lottery.
Holy mackerel, JYLL. “Investing in people”! That’s what I call sleazespeak. It could have been pulled right off the front page of a Liberal promotional brochure.
Oh well, in today’s world, where literally usually means figuratively, I guess that investment can mean divestment. The public seems to swallow anything.
The BC Liberal Gov’t announces new $10.6 million program to make clean energy vehicles more affordable.
http://www.news.gov.bc.ca/Default.aspx?qp=&style=em&qt=electric+vehicles&Submit.x=18&Submit.y=2
We in BC are $66 thousand million (66 billion) in debt, but no problem, we can just tax, spend and subsidize our way to prosperity.
No money for schools but hey lets borrow another $10.6 million tax/debt and give it to our friends ‘in the name of environmentalism’.
The ‘Clean Energy Vehicle’ (CEV) are spun as “incentives” rather than ‘subsidies’ to ease your suspicious pain, for new electric/hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
$5000 off list price goes to the new car dealer, $6,000 for a hydrogen CEV.
Then there is the smooth talking “investment” subsidies in the charging stations infrastructure around the province. http://www.fraserbasin.bc.ca/ http://pluginbc.ca/
BC Hydro (in huge debt) can give away free taxpayer electricity at these ‘slow charge’ (approx. 4-8 hrs. depending on battery status) stations.
With a 2 hr limit on the parking space (so you don’t park overnight), you could leave your car at a charging parking space, take a taxi to your hotel and go back every 2 hrs. to restart the charge process.
There are only approx. 8 – ‘quick charge’ (approx.20 min. to 2 hr.) stations of 13 proposed in Metro Vancouver area and have a $2.00 min then 35 cents KW hour rate, (compared to 12 cents KW hour residential rate). We in Langley have 1- quick charge at the Events Centre and 6 other slow chargers.
That doesn’t include the subsidized, dedicated exclusive parking spaces for the chargers which will hardly ever be used, at approx. $40-50,000 each (depending on location). Plus $ maintenance, vandalism etc.
Don’t forget the wasted tax-dollar grants and subsidies to manage the promotion and spin www.cevforbc.ca program, like the ‘Fraser Basin Council’, and ‘Plug-in-BC’ etc.
Electric cars don’t emit CO2 on the road but the energy used for their manufacture and battery-charges far negate any benefits. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578346913994914472.html
Read this……..
Electric Cars Enviro Benefits are Bogus
Bjorn Lomborg, renown author of ‘The skeptical Environmentalist’ and ‘Cool it’ reveals Green Cars have a dirty little secret.
Electric cars don’t emit CO2 on the road but the energy used for their manufacture and battery-charges far negates any benefits.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578346913994914472.html
Yet another study confirms what has been long known as a 2012 life-cycle analysis in Journal of Industrial Ecology shows that almost 50% of the lifetime CO2 emissions come from the energy used to produce the electric car, especially the battery. Compare that to the manufacture of a gas-powered car at 17% of it’s lifetime CO2 emissions.
The electric car fresh off the production line has already used up the equivalent of 80,000 miles (128,700 km) of travel emissions, more than twice that of the gas car.
Consider the limitations for example, long recharging times, the Nissan Leaf has only 73 miles (117 km) per charge however after 5 years as the batteries fade, the charge/range drops to 55 miles, (88km).
The report concludes, as a way to tackle global warming the electric car does virtually nothing and the government subsidies are a very poor deal for taxpayers.
Our BC Liberals ignore the real science and continue to buy elite votes with our taxdollars as they subsidize each new hybrid/electric $5,000 plus $500 to install a charging station at home. Another $6.28 million for ‘Community Charging Infrastructure Fund’ for 570 public charging stations and upgrades around the province, to Prince Rupert. Plus many more Liberal riding campaign subsidies to local governments for charging stations to try to influence green voters.
Without subsidies electric vehicles would not be selling on their own merits as they are inefficient in cold Canadian winters. Instead of $40,000 for a Chevy Volt Hybrid, a $20,000 regular gas car will get better mileage.
The ‘elec/hybrid’ is merely a status symbol, which has about a 15 year average payback period, unless of course you get free electricity.
People who purchase elec/hybrids are higher income earners, so through taxes, it’s the struggling lower income class subsidizing the more affluent class.
The market is the best judge whether gas, diesel, electric, hybrid cars are used, not the government trying to pick winners and losers with no regard for our tax-dollars.
The idea is this will engage people to consider greener choices in purchases by actually giving back to the taxpayer instead of pocketing the cash like all Liberals do.
So a tax payer spent $ 40 k on an energy efficient car and they get a little back so what! It sounds like some one investing in people not some shady mafia run infrastructure project.
By the way you might want to test drive the product before bashing it, they are not crummy as you state.
Still support freedom of opinion for yhe rebel but don’t get caught like the CBC spouting first glance kneejerk reaction to things that are occuring. Investigate, research then express informed pinions please.
Tesla still needs oil products fot lubricants and plastics.
Jan. Do you know how big those batteries are? What %, if any is recyclable? Could you imagine, if we all bought one tomorrow, and then in 3 or 4 yrs when all the batteries die and we start dumping them in dumps what a massive issue this would be?
Besides range, there’s an issue with plugging them in. There’s an awful lot of street parking in Toronto.
The there’s the issue of the amount of electricity needed to charge everyone’s car if we were all using them. You’d have to build umpteen nuke plants, and Lefty’s are against them. It just isn’t that easy.
Building a zero emissions car is not hard, they’re just too stupid (or over-educated) to think of it.
Diesel and natgas are the future.
That is MY money!
Giving it away?
Typical.
This is a weird article.