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You can buy a $200,000+ hybrid Mercedes-Maybach S 580 that gets 16mpg city, 24 highway...and both state and federal governments will give you a nice big fat check for many, many thousands of dollars. It could be the fifth car you own, which sits in the garage of one of your summer homes in the Hamptons, for 10 out of 12 months.

Wringing out hands over people not using a subsidized e-bike "enough" seems pretty silly when for two decades we've been handing many thousands of dollars to anyone who has a pulse and buys a hybrid or electric, with little or no conditions. No income/worth caps, no purchase price caps, no annual usage requirements, nothing.



I think it's really subsidizing the car manufacturers to cover for their R&D in the light of more stringent emissions regulation.

Bike were already environmentally friendly anyway, even before e-bikes were a thing.




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