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10-22-2009, 06:50 PM | #1 | |
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$42,000 in tax credits on a Tesla Roadster
...if you live in Colorado.
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10-22-2009, 07:09 PM | #2 |
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This is why EV's won't make it. Even cool, desirable EV's require huge incentives. Until people have real reason to buy high mileage vehicles, nothing is going to change.
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10-22-2009, 07:10 PM | #3 |
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but the more they sell the cheaper they will get. It's technology.
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10-22-2009, 07:18 PM | #4 |
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I don't know why anyone thought Tesla could make a profit? We went through this in the 80s and no car co. ever made any profit from electric cars. Golf cart anyone?
LNG or Gasoline/Propane flex fuel would be most advantageous as humongous natural gas finds recently. Most taxis in Bangkok run on LNG quite economically. Man, they have millions of them too! |
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10-22-2009, 07:30 PM | #6 |
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Tesla gets their full $109,000.
It's just that Colorado's tax rebate program has a big "oops" in it, and under ideal circumstances you can claim up to $48,000 in tax credits spread over five years if you trade in a clunker for a Tesla Roadster... AND you earn enough each year to be able to claim the full credit (about $200k/year, apparently). |
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I'll take one in black, plz, thx.
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10-22-2009, 07:35 PM | #8 |
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I love colorado.
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10-22-2009, 07:44 PM | #9 | |
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PS I don't believe in these subsidies at all but at the very least there should be cap on them eg the $3000 the Prius and Insight get. Last edited by Mike Wevrick; 10-22-2009 at 07:49 PM. |
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10-22-2009, 07:51 PM | #10 |
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They are instituting a $6000 cap Jan 1st. It was just a poorly written law (shocking).
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10-23-2009, 06:55 AM | #11 | |
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There is actually no reason to cap at Prius and insight levels though. What is the subsidy for supposedly? Reducing gasoline usage. As such it should be based on how much you reduce usage. That means if you have a car that is more efficient (a prius is better than in insight) it should get a bigger subsidy. In general luxury sports cars or cars over $X should be excluded though. Tesla Roadsters are not cars that families buy and drive now. Thus the gas savings are not really going to be as significant. One should never make a subsidy based on how expensive things are (as the CO law did) this discourages lowering prices. The easier solution to all this is to increase gas taxes significantly, or registration fees based on the amount of fuel used. But people hate "taxes" so instead they subsidize to try and get the same effect. Then they tax you elsewhere quietly to pay for it. Instead they should just increase gas taxes significantly and let the market work it out. |
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10-23-2009, 09:17 AM | #12 | |
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^^So? If higher gas prices increases the cost of other goods, it will discourage the use of those good, thus reducing gas usage
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10-23-2009, 10:50 AM | #14 |
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Have you looked at oil prices lately? Back over 80 dollars a barrel, and the economy isn't exactly on boil right now either...
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10-23-2009, 11:15 AM | #15 |
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And at $80 during a time massive oversupply due to the economic crash. If the economy keeps picking up at its current pace, people will be screaming 'drill baby drill' en masse again in a year or so. Hopefully the coming demand spike doesn't trigger yet another worldwide economic crash...
Fortunately there should be more viable and affordable non-oil-dependent vehicle choices on the market by then. For commercial as well as passenger use... |
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Gas will end up around $100 per barrel and probably stay there as the economy stabalizes. The oil companies will keep us over there barrel until we accept the ways of not using so much of there product. Does anyone know what we were paying a gallon when crude topped $100/barrel? From the looks of things to me, the oil companies are just figuring out what we are willing to pay before we slow down consumption. These are my guesses and they are guesses:
$2.50 a gallon, buy more gas guzzlers love the American Ride "Toby Keith" $3.00 people sell personal items to buy gas for there gas guzzler. $3.50 keep the gas guzzler, but start driving that old Honda Accord 5 speed. $4.00 start complaining that the oil companies are making too much profit and gas costs so much the family is starving. $4.50 trade guzzler for hybrid and take a beating on the trade. $5.00 The hybrid becomes the talk of the neighborhood. $5.50 Gas guzzlers are parked at the peir. Only used when they are really really needed. Hauling 5 bags on concrete will not justify starting the motor. Take the old Accord. $6.00 Demand for useable public transit will be off the charts. Just a thought. |
10-23-2009, 11:32 AM | #17 |
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The problem with raising the price of gas is it cripples the rest of the country. Every industry suffers. I am not willing to support a high gas price when it will hurt every industry in this country. Also, I personally believe that the incentives for hybrids should be stopped all together. If people want them, they will buy them. If people need to be bribed to buy a car, then the market is not primed for that product and they are creating an artificial demand that does not really exist. If the car is worth the money, then people will pay it. Why should the government sacrifice tax dollars to prop up a product that most people do not want.
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10-23-2009, 11:37 AM | #18 |
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If they phased it in gradually it would work fine. CAFE standards are part of the same effort, but still doing it backwards b/c people get all upset about gas taxes. As the fleet becomes more fuel efficient we will need greater gas taxes anyway to pay for roads.
If they said that fed gas taxes would go up 3% every year until they are double or something like that businesses would be fine. The key is they need predictability so they can plan. If you have no idea if gas will cost 90 cents/gal or $7/gal it limits your ability to make good decisions. |
10-23-2009, 11:44 AM | #19 |
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Just curious what you're basing that oil price target of $100 on. You are aware of the lead times to bring significant new production to market, the production costs on non-conventional oil, and the demographic forces at work on the demand side, I presume?
Personally I think the old high of $14x/bbl is going to be a fond memory unless we can find a way to cut our demand faster than the oil-producing and developing economies raise their demand... |
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Or we can just raise our demand faster and suck all the oil from the developing countries. Why give them the easy cheap energy source. I say burn the candle at both ends. Increase our oil usage while developing our alternative energy sources.
In a perfect world we would suck up all the oil and deprive all the other countries of it just as we get our alternative energy sources online. We would have power and nobody else would... haha... Yeah, I can be called greedy. |
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That plan requires we be prepared to pay more than anyone else in the world for each available barrel. I can't afford that, maybe you can though.
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I never said it was a good plan, guys. But I think it would work. The companies sxotty mentioned did not have to sell out to China. What made them do that. Wait, I know..
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