Oh yea, the air inside a car with the windows rolled up is totally clean air, it is nothing like the air outside the car.
Our a superior way of being "green." Few take the raw materials and energy that it takes to fabricate and assemble a car into consideration when totaling the car's carbon footprint. Or disposal, for that matter.
In most states, the taxes collected from fuel sales account for less than half of the needs for infrastructure support. The remaining needs are mostly made up from property taxes or in some cases special sales taxes. So the people we ought to be going after to get more tax dollars are the apartment renters. E-vehicles don't make enough of a ripple in the pond yet to matter to the fuel tax issue.
Exactly
If the infrastructure is underfunded then the fuel tax intended to pay for it should be raised.
I have read most of the settlement, it in no way bars VW from selling diesels ever again, they just can't sell cheating diesels. The other part of the settlement was a required investment in developing not only EVs but also helping implement EV charging infrastructure as part of the penance... and there was a very large dollar figure attached to the required investment... Whole lotta zeros.
Yes, but at a lower tax rate than the average home owner. At least in the areas that I've both owned a home and rented an apartment.
This is complete BS. How exactly did you come to that conclusion? Homeowners property tax has always been lower than commercial real estate tax (which includes apparent buildings,) even in NC where one of my kids live.
Well at least you got the thread back to cars.
I bought a Spark EV that just came off lease from Carvana. They delivered it right to the house.
When my 2003 TDI was new people hit me with that several times, telling me that my TDI was actually terrible for the environment because of all the energy required to build it, but now its old enough than I can hold my chin high knowing that I'm doing the earth a favor by keeping "an old car on the road"?
Why would you scrap it after 10 years? EVs can be repaired just like ALH VWs!
Like the kids would say 'pics or it didn't happen'
I don't understand this. What makes people think that a TDI takes significantly more energy to build than a gasoline powered VW?
I bought my ALH new. Although I've also bought a bunch of used ones, most of which had to be resurrected. Which brings me to the second point. I wasn't saying EVs had to be scrapped in 10 years, but a lot of owners care for their cars as if they will have used them up by that time, and the only economical outcome is to scrap them. You hear those discussions here all the time, "it will cost more to fix than the car is worth, so I'm walking away."
They weren't referring specifically to the TDI aspect of my Jetta, just the fact that it was a new car, that I was a bad guy environmentally for buying a new car when I could have bought a used one.
Ah, yea, 10 years was the average lifespan of a car in the US quite recently, it is actually up to 11.7 years now, but thats still pretty disappointing.