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Old 09-24-2018, 05:22 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
I don't trust politicians too.

When I bought my Insight is was free of road tax, to stimulate hybrids.
One year later that became a 'slightly reduced' tax, now it is the same as gasoline cars.
Similar things happening in Belgium too.
Subsidized diesel cars up to 15% off sales price -including options- as they were so green and reduced CO2 ...
Diesel fuel was way cheaper than petrol back then.

FF 10 years, diesel cars are taxed more to own, and diesel fuel is taxed more to make it more expensive than petrol, and there's talk of banning them altogether ...

Solar panel were (excessively) subsidized for years
Now they're on people's roofs, they get taxed ....


Net result ?

People have become wary of g'ment-pushed eco solutions
So much it's actually further hampering the introduction of solar, altfuels (there's only fossil CNG here - abroad I buy biologically produced CNG made from "waste" )
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