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1) standards

2) subsidies

3) financing

All three which I would argue we are woefully behind on in the US for EVs and solar.

There should be a ten year subsidy on new cars in the range of 10000$ that decreases 10% per year if they are EVs or PHEVs with 40 mile all electric ranges.

There should be a tax on new ice cars that increases by 4% of the retail car cost every year.

Of course we should have a similar increasing tax on gasoline, but that is more regressive.




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