8 Electric-Car Myths Busted

[spookyturtle 9,466]

ROFLMAO. Now all the adds on my browser are for corvettes. Thanks.

Try a ZR1.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Thats not the real world paul, that is a libertarian's wet dream.

Sorry, I don't have the time or patience to cut and paste the rationale. But, i'm sure you have google paul.

Actually it is the real world.

HDTVs didn't have a rebate to make them sell.

ipods, macbooks, etc.

3D movies...

SUVs, Pickups, Sports Cars, etc...

the shopping mall....

All of these things for example all sold on their own merits... They didn't require some government rebate, because they were legit items in the marketplace.

It something is legit. If something is what it's cracked up to be, then it doesn't need some government HUGE rebate to make it sell...

[scandal 951]

Do you like steak? I bet you eat plenty of premium Angus USDA porterhouse, dontcha?

Me too, I love my beef.

You do realize that the only reason you are able to afford beef any night of the week, instead of the rare luxury it was for your grandparents, is because of massive corn subsidies that have enabled grain fed cattle to be raised by the millions in industrial feed lots? Without decades agricultural subsidies for corn, America's beef industry would have stayed grass fed and never developed its modern economies of scale.

Please educate me again on just how a purely free-enterprise subsidy-free economy works, I'm a little tone deaf apparently.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Do you like steak? I bet you eat plenty of premium Angus USDA porterhouse, dontcha?

Me too, I love my beef.

You do realize that the only reason you are able to afford beef any night of the week, instead of the rare luxury it was for your grandparents, is because of massive corn subsidies that have enabled grain fed cattle to be raised by the millions in industrial feed lots? Without decades agricultural subsidies for corn, America's beef industry would have stayed grass fed and never developed its modern economies of scale.

Please educate me again on just how a purely free-enterprise subsidy-free economy works, I'm a little tone deaf apparently.

Actually, no one knows how the market would have gone on that aspect.

Corn subsidies aren't needed. Hell we still pay people NOT to farm corn.... so how does that work jack? Cmon. Get real.

If corn weren't made so damn cheap, we wouldn't have the abomination of HFCS in almost everything out there and sugarcane would be farmed more once again.

This all works both ways.... Supply and Demand in the economy work if you allow them to the right way.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Actually, no one knows how the market would have gone on that aspect.

Corn subsidies aren't needed. Hell we still pay people NOT to farm corn.... so how does that work jack? Cmon. Get real.

If corn weren't made so damn cheap, we wouldn't have the abomination of HFCS in almost everything out there and sugarcane would be farmed more once again.

This all works both ways.... Supply and Demand in the economy work if you allow them to the right way.

The free market is a myth. Without regulation, anyone with enough resources can manipulate supply and demand in their favor. Also some of those examples you listed previously were sold for losses in their first few years.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

The free market is a myth. Without regulation, anyone with enough resources can manipulate supply and demand in their favor. Also some of those examples you listed previously were sold for losses in their first few years.

That's a business decision to make to sell something for a loss because you know (or hope) you'll eventually make a good profit.

So GM should short sell the Volt if they want to do that and not rely on the taxpayers to bail them out EVEN MORE.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

That's a business decision to make to sell something for a loss because you know (or hope) you'll eventually make a good profit.

So GM should short sell the Volt if they want to do that and not rely on the taxpayers to bail them out EVEN MORE.

They probably would have in a few years and thats another two points. One, private industry cannot react unless prices change. But what if prices change so quickly that there is not enough time to react? You crash.

Two, the world and globalization do not support the use of "free" markets.

[mawilson 2,133]

You do realize that the only reason you are able to afford beef any night of the week, instead of the rare luxury it was for your grandparents

Which was probably a good thing (for your grandparents), since red meat isn't all that good for you.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

If the Volt were so good, it wouldn't need a government rebate to help sell it.

Same is true for oil and, hence, gasoline. If it's so good, why does Uncle Sam need to subsidize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year?