The Electric Car Subsidy Is Snobbish

“Where does the federal government get off spending the average person’s tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?” Slate on the electric car credit. “If the federal government wanted to dent carbon emissions and gasoline consumption without subsidizing a handful of rich consumers and client corporations, it would accept that the internal combustion engine is going to be the dominant technology for decades to come—and focus on getting more mileage out of it.”