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Old 08-19-2009, 04:36 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Touche...

You actually bring a good point... most people may think it's "wrong", but subsidy pays for just about everything "the little guy" has or will have, whether they know it or not. The fact that some JA out there is willing to pay $200,000 for a Tesla, over time, eventually trickles down into a sub $20k family sedan with more than reasonable (compared to other EV's of today) expectations. That's called "operating capital subsidizing". It's life, in business.
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I'd like to think that people might open their eyes at some point... instead, I find it more and more likely that I'll just close mine.

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(I do not want a better life. I want to be happy with the one I have now.)


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