Broken government - no love for hybrids
Posted on June 15, 2008 by Chris DeBrusk
Wired has a great article demonstrating how broken the US government is right now. $17 billion is subsidies for big oil and they managed to scrape together $30 million to help support the development of viable plug in hybrids.
It is absolutely ridiculous. The government needs to view the goal to move off expensive, disappearing oil as a new “moon race” and for once dump some serious money into it. Of course most of it will be wasted, but the 10% that is not will likely result in some amazing technological breakthroughs that might make a difference. Our options are electric cars and hydrogen and we should be pumping billions into both programs on an annual basis.
Oh yeah, how about a proper program to invest in public transit. Now that would be something I’d vote for.
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