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Do Performance/Luxury Hybrids Deserve to be Subsidized With Your Taxes?

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Old August-10th-2005 | 01:23 PM
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Do Performance/Luxury Hybrids Deserve to be Subsidized With Your Taxes?

The New York Times has an article on hybrids, specifically the Accord. There's not much of savings in mileage compared to the 4 cylinder model, and it's marketed more as a top of the line performance car, like the Lexus RX and LS variants.
I think the combination of performance and better mileage than a similarly engined model is great, but these cars should not be entitled to government subsidies. Buyers who needs this incentive the least get money back they would have likely spent anyway. What is the environmental benefit if the car consumes as many resources as an existing non-hybrid?
Old August-10th-2005 | 02:12 PM
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i vote No, here's why.

I bought my wife an RX8 for her graduation present from college. It got "less-than-pleasing" mileage. She wanted to trade it in for something with good mileage and automatic transmission. She wanted a civic hybrid, I wanted a Jetta deisel. We drove both back to back. The honda product was GARBAGE compared to the VW. Now what does this have to do with the question posed? The VW (fully loaded) we bought was $22,700. The civic hybrid (base) was $24.560. You can have a psuedo luxery vehicle with plenty of performance and NOT spend an arm and a leg and not need government subsidy (sp?). Our government is going to hand out money because you bought a car that runs on batteries and costs more? Why don't desiel passenger cars apply for the same bonuses then?? They get much better mileage (we got 40.45mpg on the last tank of fuel) and are more emissions friendly.

Our goverment is so screwed up it's not even funny.

p.s. In california they are contemplating a new law which removes all tax from gasoline/oil sales. Instead vehicles will be taxed on the number of miles they drive. This is because hybrid/deisel sales are killing profits at the pump. Don't think if the gov. gives you a break on taxes for buying a hybrid they wont try to get it back out of you somewhere else....
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