I’d love to attend this…

Here is a chance for people to speak with our legislators and other policy makers about the importance of EVs in America’s future:If I were to attend, I would make sure they were aware that:

• The way the federal tax incentive is handled, after the sale, only upper income individuals can qualify for financing. If it were a point-of-sale incentive, many more people could make the switch to zero emission vehicles.
• The 200,000 vehicle cap to the tax credit will end up hurting two American companies, Tesla and GM. They will have a competitive disadvantage against newcomers who decided to have a wait-and-see attitude, before creating EVs of their own.
• Failure to support electric vehicles will hurt manufacturing, as China would become the dominant vehicle manufacturer, in the vacuum provided by the U.S. not pushing forward in EV development.
• The United States has been put in tight spots, in the past, due to our dependence on oil. It weakens us in diplomacy and protecting oil shipping corridors requires a heavy military investment by us.
• Climate change is a real threat and time to prevent the worst outcomes is dwindling. Even if you don’t believe in climate change, how sure are you? Consider not acting to prevent climate change the same as playing Russian Roulette. Would you put a six gun to your head an pull the trigger for any amount of money? Failing to act NOW is essentially the same thing.
• We need to divorce the tax used to repair infrastructure from the fuel/energy source, since revenues will drop precipitously, over the next 10 years. We should not replace tax EV owners with a flat annual charge, as this isn’t fair. Fair taxation would me we are each taxed according to the wear, tear and environmental damage our driving causes.

Perhaps a GoFundMe…