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Originally Posted by shakran
So then don't retrofit it. Problem solved.
And if they do, they'll pass the cost on to consumers, and people in here will still call it a tax. What's the difference. Also note that it is a loan, not a gift, so claiming that they aren't supporting their own R&D is false.
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No it's not false. Since they should have been doing such things for years, lobbying against raising of the CAFE standards is money they could have used to put in this direction. As far is it being a true loan, I don't know, it sounds free since I don't know the details and stipulations of the return payments, ie interest free means you and I shoulder it.
My small business doesn't get such generous loans. Now, few banks are willing to loan them money if they were to get them off the street, well isn't that the point of issuing stock to raise funds and capital for such types of projects? Or is it just to churn and burn money and profiteer?
I will suffer from not retrofitting since we burn #6 oil about 2-3 trucks a day across 1600 apartments. Our fuel bills went from $2M to $14M in about 5 years.
Electricity we just locked in pricing but "transport" costs well those fluctuate and aren't regulated. So we still get fucked since that's not even something you can use for comparative costs.
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