Red State Drivers Turn Up Their Noses at EVs Despite Incentives
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Let Rednecks learn to hack on battery and speed controller systems in a recreational setting, and they'll be much more open to adopting them for situations needing more reliability.
make the "recreational" grade ones eligible for the medicare reimbursement that the mobility scooters get. that'll be a big kick in the market.
there's a need for "all terrain" mobility scooters, anyhow.
It is obviously an enormous problem, and they keep their heads in the sand. That is very demoralizing to everyone - even the reactionaries, I would think.
This isn't endemic to USA either. Polish alt-right party Konfederacja was criticizing government's inaction during the onset of COVID just to turn 180 degrees when restrictions were instated.
Problem solving
Step 0: Analyze if and how you're helpless
Step 1: Start problem solving
The trick to problem solving is to skip step 0, which is a complete waste of resources.
Moving on to step 1: Note that the reactionaries, world wide, have changed the political climate to something unimaginable and unprecedented in ~7 years in the US, and they have nothing but lies, despair, hatred, violence and disorder to sell. But they skipped step 0 - good for them, because anyone would have told them it's impossible.
We have truth, public welfare, freedom, peace, prosperity, integrity, etc. to sell. Most of history has been on our side. We can change the climate too.
But first, we need to move on from step 0.
Failing to put yourself in the shoes of a small town that cannot afford to triple each homes KW capacity is a serious gap in perspective and the desire to tax people until they bend to your will may be indicative of why our country is falling apart.
That sounds possible, but is it really a problem? Regardless, the OP seems to say that disinterest in EVs correlates with political alignment and not with local population.
> Seems awfully authoritarian.
> the desire to tax people until they bend to your will
That is quite a description of the ancient, commonplace art of tax incentives and disincentives.
The taxes, if implemeted correctly, actually enable people to make informed decisions. It causes the product to reflect the true cost, moving externalities (in this case, the climate change damage) into the price. In other words, it's just people paying to clean up their own mess.
>disinterest in EVs correlates with political alignment and not with local population.
Political alignment correlates with local population. You can make an educated guess that a rural town leans red, and a city leans blue. A city will also have a more significant tax base and can afford long term infrastructure development. A small town is not in the same position.
>the ancient, commonplace art of tax incentives and disincentives. And they have often been called authoritarian when they are excised without adequate representation.
>The taxes, if implemented correctly, actually enable people to make informed decisions. My concern is that things aren't being implemented correctly. That the regulations and tax incentives and disincentives make lots of sense for people in one position and not a lot of sense for people in different positions. I think we are ignoring the plight of people in rural communities and failing to recognize that there are immense hurdles for even dense cities.
Poor people do not get to buy new cars. They certainly do not get the benefits of subsidized purchase prices. If anything you have poor people subsiding the luxury purchases of wealthy people. In other words its forcing society to collective clean up the messes of people who can already afford to clean up their own messes.
New cars become used cars, but if the battery needs to be replaced then you are talking about a cost resembling another car.
As someone who believes in climate change, who is under no illusion that we are having massive species loss, why are we all so convinced this means our own extinction? Most of the species that lived on this planet are not captured in the fossil record. The globe was covered in ice 10,000 years ago and life still exists today. If in a hundred years the world is a Jurassic tropical climate, why are we so convinced that this is existential? Species will adapt and survive and evolve. Some won't. C'est la vie.
Besides eventually we will figure out that pesticides have had a far greater impact on species loss than a little bit of rough weather.
Except for Mississippi, those are also carbon-production states. 3 of them would inspire range anxiety, how many Superchargers are there in North Dakota or Wyoming? Also, the average car is more of an SUV or pickup on those roads and larger ones too. More Lincoln Aviators outside of those listed blue states.
Journalists, particularly at Bloomberg, often approach observations with bias and ignorance that actively interferes with thinking and problem solving.
Looks like the cheapest Bolt is 27k, which works out to something like $4-500 monthly payment.
Wouldn't fit into my budget, and we make about twice the median income. Not hard to imagine many, many people making a similar financial call
In this state, contradictory evidence confirms the bias! Might as well park your brain on the bedside table before heading out.
edit: first paragraph also states that gas prices are cheaper, which is another incentive.