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orange4boy · 07-14-2009, 02:43 PM

Good for them. Hopefully there will be a snowball effect in the rest of the country.

If we had a Government with the slightest will to actually support electric vehicles there would have been a national policy years ago. This piecemeal approach is their way of doing the minimum and hoping the electric car disappears. At the same time our government is "harmonizing" many regulations with the US (read changing Canada's regs to the US regs) The provinces are working on a free trade deal between themselves, again to "harmonize" regulation. Why does the LSV get patchwork regs? So much for democracy. So business gets de-regulation, citizens get tighter border restrictions and big brother. NICE.

In addition, There has not been a national building code change yet for EV plugs in homes, just piecemeal municipality changes.

They don't want them but they want to look like they do.

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