Texas governor supports $5,000 incentive for plug-in vehicles
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Here's a benefit to living with dirty air in Texas: getting $5,000 off the price of your plug-in hybrid vehicle. That's the amount being proposed in the state legislature and supported by Gov. Rick Perry. In the governor's state of the state speech last night, Perry said, "I support giving Texans in the non-attainment areas of our state a $5,000 incentive towards a purchase of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, using the funds Texans have already paid to reduce emissions, while providing a unique way to store wind energy."
The phrase "non-attainment areas" refers to a place "where air pollution levels persistently exceed National Ambient Air Quality Standards, or that contributes to ambient air quality in a nearby area that fails to meet standards." So, if you live where there's dirty air, and this proposal passes, and the Chevy Volt ever appears in your local dealer lot, then you could get $12,500 off the sticker price, thanks to government help.
Perry was a strong supporter of building a coal gassification plant in Texas.
[Source: Wall Street Journal]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GoodCheer 10:29AM (1/28/2009)
Aptera... are you hearing this?
Maybe time to think about expanding out of California?
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Tim 10:34AM (1/28/2009)
Gov. Rick Perry is a Republican in name only.
You can tell by his actions that he is REALLY a Statist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statist
Statists include Democratic-Socialists, Neo-Conservatives, Marxists and Fascists among others.
Welcome to the New World Order. Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated or you will be exterminated!
Choose Freedom & Liberty or choose Statism.
CHOOSE NOW
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Jharlan 10:44AM (1/28/2009)
I like it. Bribing people has always worked. Will it achieve the desired goals in a cost efficient manner? It might.
Chris M 10:19PM (1/28/2009)
Tim, I choose the freedom of not joining your paranoid fantasies. Life is soo much easier when we don't have to worry ourselves silly over imaginary conspiracies.
Tony Belding 2:03PM (1/28/2009)
Rick Perry is better known as the main political force behind the Trans-Texas Corridor, a gobsmacking ginormous mega-highway project intended to speed Mexican trucks and railcars through Texas toward Chicago and the rest of the US markets. Along the way it would consume vast tracts of Texas's most fertile farmland and create a Berlin Wall-like barrier through the middle of the state.
Recently TX-DOT announced the Corridor is to be cancelled -- sort of. As I understand they are dropping the TTC name and scaling back some parts of it, but still moving ahead with the project as a whole. The "cancellation" seems to be a mostly symbolic gesture to mollify the project's opponents -- which include just about everyone in the state, except the governor and the highway construction industry.
More here. . .
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/01/05/daily18.html
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Brian 2:43PM (1/28/2009)
What about home conversions, Slick Rick? I'd love $5k off of my Jetta conversion.
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Justin 2:51AM (1/29/2009)
Some Republican better oust this Rick Perry MFer next election.
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