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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX3/26/14 5:39 PM |
Electric Smart Car $139.00 lease.
Fine print=mandatory battery lease @ $80.00 mo. additionally.
So much for truth in advertising... ;)
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA3/27/14 6:41 AM |
Other mandatory negative feature = having to drive a Smart Car
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX3/27/14 10:57 AM |
I was talking to a guy at the pumps the other day with a 7 year old smart. He gets about 4-5 MPH better than my Del Sol on the highway if he goes 60 MPH. And about the same as the Del Sol if he pushes 70 @ 34-5. He said for the $26k the car originally cost if he had to do it all over he wouldn't.
It was all vinyl covered ala billboard, so a cute looker with moving free advertising can't be a bad thing as a component of it's use. He said he gets a lot of questions at gas stations etc.
I get only one question about my Del Sol everytime someone sees it at the gas station. "Do you want to sell it?" 9 out of 10 times it seems like.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven3/27/14 11:12 AM |
Mulligan
Hmmm, that makes it like a golf cart, except there's no place to put your and your mates' clubs.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX3/27/14 11:19 AM |
I do wonder when the Guv will start the fees or surcharges for lost tax revenue at the pumps.
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA3/27/14 11:31 AM |
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I do wonder when the Guv will start the fees or surcharges for lost tax revenue at the pumps.
Or require a separate electric meter devoted to (and taxed) as automotive "fuel". Sort of the way furnace oil and automotive diesel fuel are taxed at far different rates with penalties for using furnace oil in your car.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven3/27/14 2:09 PM |
Before that happens, the government will need to remove the subsidies its provides to such industry.
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Kramer
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 121
Location: Richmond, VA3/28/14 3:42 AM |
Hybrid Fee
Virginia actually implemented a Hybrid Fee, I think it was $100 a year, to offset the savings on less gas and less gas tax. It just got voted out this year in the GA.
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA3/28/14 6:55 AM |
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Virginia actually implemented a Hybrid Fee, I think it was $100 a year, to offset the savings on less gas and less gas tax.
Another case of one branch of the government pushing a policy (CAFE increases to force lower gasoline usage, reduced carbon dioxide emissions, etc.) that wind up having negative consequences on another in reduced revenue.
The experience with smoking secession efforts was the same. They got a lot of people to quit smoking and discovered their tobacco tax revenue was way down.
Favorite response; increase the tax rate.
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