Comments on: A Tale of Two Mid-Recession Green Car Markets: U.S. vs. Japan

By: drug addiction centers

drug addiction centers — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:33:45 +0000

If hybrids began to be tax free here, we would see a larger incentive to end up purchasing them. Sort of like the CARS program - this would drive up hybrid sales exponentially.

By: 5 Lessons from Cash for Clunkers for the Green Car Market

5 Lessons from Cash for Clunkers for the Green Car Market — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:26:56 +0000

[...] But that might not be enough to spur a sustainable leap to greener vehicles. For evidence, look to the success of Japan’s more comprehensive approach to boosting hybrids and the results of a new study on Canadian rebates for hybrid buyers. However, making Americans [...]

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| body detox — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:35:41 +0000

the Economic Recession made a lot of people jobless but at least there is some good progress on the economy this year. i just hope that the economy will continue to recover in the following months and years.

By: liquidmelatonin

liquidmelatonin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:54:12 +0000

the Economic Recession has been pretty hard on us. some of my friends lost their job because of the massive job cuts. i just hope that our economy becomes better in the following years.

By: Electricnick, The Electric Car Revolution » Blog Archive » Incentives for the hybrid push

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:01:16 +0000

[...] have outperformed expectations in Asia but have not done nearly as well in the U.S., according to Earth2Tech. Upon further research, it seems to point to the higher price of gas in [...]

By: Incentives: How Japan and the U.S. create different green car markets » Hybrid News

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:49 +0000

[...] to Earth2Tech, the issue is with incentives. It seems that Japan [...]

By: Incentives: How Japan and the U.S. create different green car markets | Only Hybrids

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:00:26 +0000

[...] to Earth2Tech, the issue is with incentives. It seems that Japan has both wide-ranging subsidies to spur the sale [...]

By: Eideard

Eideard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:37:22 +0000

We'll ignore the ignorant ideologue. Even American voters have started to learn that much.

The sad commentary though is that our politicians are still afraid to lead. Traditional sources of slush fund money keep them dragging their feet through anything approaching a unified energy approach.

Take something as easy and simple as the cash for clunkers program. At least fourteen countries have already enacted legislation like this and it's rolling right along.

Providing incentives for getting crappy old cars off the road ain't a bad idea. Yet, I doubt if it will hit the streets of the GOUSA before 2010.

Keep twisting the arms of your chickenhearted elected officials, gang. They haven't sufficient backbone to do it on their own.

By: Wai Yip Tung

Wai Yip Tung — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:12:18 +0000

Your car has not suddenly becomes a clunker. It is always a clunker. The difference is now you may get some cash for getting rid of it.

By the way if you want to assert having a million electric cars on the road will have zero discernible effect on anything please convince us with your math. Otherwise you know who is the brainless boobs?

By: kent beuchert

kent beuchert — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:53:55 +0000

If only policy were free from political payoffs to the alternative energy companies, and their supporters.
Now there are payoffs to those who can do with a pint-sized car. And the payoffs mostly have the effect of increasing our debt and (if possible) making us less able to compete. The idea that spending vast sums so that electricity can cost twice as mcuh ranks up there with the Florida Land Bubble as one of the all time cons. Do these morons in Congress have a clue as to just how much money they are spending
and how little they are affecting anything? Look at our dimwit sitting in the Oval Office. He thinks a million electric cars will actually make some difference.
We already know he doesn’t know “Austrian”, nor that 50 states comprise the US, now we realize that simple math is also way, way beyond his feeble mental abilities. One million electric cars on the road
in the US will have zero discernible effect on anything – oil demand, CO2, you name it. Cost? $7.5 billion. And offering cash for clunkers (I love the way a car large enough to fit my needs suddenly becomes a “clunker”) is even less effective. Do the math, people, and quit making emotional, silly claims about this and that. And the next person that lies by referring to an EV as a “zero emission vehicle” gets a foot up their ass. How about a little intelligence around here. This is embarrassing for me as a human being. You folks DO have brains. Right? Well, use them!!!! What a generation of brainless boobs.
Did it ever occur to you “EV analysts” that the advent of electric propusltion means the death of tiny cars, mostly efficient at killing their occupants in the case of an accident. Do you people really enjoy helping to raise the accident mortality rates?