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Originally Posted by mburbank
There's currently a tax break for people who but hummers.
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Right, but since we live in a free society and not a perfect one, that's just something we'll have to live with for now. That SUV tax credit is bullshit, but SUVs, unlike hybrids, account for something up to 1/4 of what's supposedly coming out of Detroit.
I heard a report yesterday that SUV purchases have dropped slightly, but the bottom line is that people want them. We can't outlaw them, so what we
should be doing (and thus what our president should be doing) is giving people more reasons to buy Hybrids, as well as investing in alternative energy research.
Bush himself said that a policy like this should've been started in the 80's. Well simply talking about good ideas doesn't replace action, and 20 years from now people will still be saying "this should've been started in....".
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