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  Fuck yeah, fuck suvs, fuck Evs, fuck our stupid goddamn shitty roads
context: Govt needs to push for much cheaper electric cars. 55k and 80k thresholds for credit are insane. How about 25-30k so ordinary people can afford one without going into debt for 10 years. >
  
  
  How about 25-30k so ordinary people can afford one without going into debt for 10 years.
  
  There are a few in that range... >
  
  The idiocy of this system is shocking. We should be applying tax credits for electric bicycles. You could get roughly 7x as many commuters on electric bikes (without them paying a dime) for the same tax credit applied to an SUV. 8k lb EVs are not the answer >
  
  Cool so the school run or getting groceries or anything even remotely close to wanting to get to work without being a sweaty dirty stinking mess or freezing to death the whole time or getting soaked or getting railroaded by a car because there's no bike paths hardly anywhere, not that would matter because cars don't see bikes at all anyways, besides all that it would be perfect. Yeah. Totally. >
  
  You stated the problem, no bike paths anywhere. Kids should be able to have the option to walk or bike safely to their schools without having to worry.
  Every morning I drive past families waiting on the school bus (in their cars too at the corner) to take the kids 3/4 of a mile to the elementary school or 5 miles to the high school.
  Walking and biking paths that went from the living area to the destinations would take the car traffic away from the school area.
  Walking and biking near-utopias exist, look at the Las Vegas strip, Disneyland. Everyone wants to go there and leave the cats behind because driving is a hassle.
  Making driving to school a hassle and other modes of transport will arise. >
  
  Fuck SUVs. If we aren’t going to invest in efficient public transportation, the least we could do is not incentivize inefficient SUVs, which by design are heavier and have typically higher coefficients of drag than sedans or wagons, and have a larger negative impact on roads too.