Electric Cars

I read in the AJC on 1/16/17 that electric car sales are down because the $5000 State tax credit was cancelled. When the electric cars came out, I was not interested. They were not practical for us because we take car trips and the electric cars don’t have the range. We prefer the hybrid that does have the range and low mileage.  We did trade in the Cadillacs in 2005 to get a pair of Toyota Prius cars and got a $2000 Federal tax credit on each. Gasoline prices were approaching $4 per gallon and we wanted to cut our gas usage by 66%.

We were also keen on keeping our electric bills in check and didn’t want to add to the increase from $211 per month in 2006 to its current $318 per month.  We knew that the government was doing everything it could to raise our electric rates, from loading nonsense into the nuclear plant expansion to mal-investments in wind and solar to keep the UN happy.

In the meantime, gasoline has settled down in the $2 per gallon range. There must be a market for the electric car, but it must be limited to folks who live alone, drive 5 miles to work every day, aren’t married, have no kids, don’t have any friends or relatives and don’t go anywhere else. This sounds like Obama’s new vision for what families should become.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader