Newsom's state budget proposal allocates $200 million for electric vehicle rebates to backfill Trump's canceled federal EV tax credits of up to $7,500

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    CA dems sure love their EVs. So much they keep shoving money at them even though research shows we could make a greater impact with e-bike subsidies. Meanwhile they’ve quietly and without explanation eliminated those so they can put more money into EVs.

    • IronBird@lemmy.world
      81·
      3 days ago

      also…maybe try building public transportation?

      if japan can have high-speed rail completely surrounded by faults and volcanoes why can’t california have even just 1 high-speed rail line connecting the state?

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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        2 days ago

        I don’t know somehow we’re really bad at that and they always tell us it will cost 800 billion or something. I’ve a bit lost hope we can actually build things so focusing on micro mobility seems more viable but I would love better transit if they can get it done.

    • br3d@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      Indeed. And let’s not forget that these budgets are all effectively handouts to the car industry (which created all the problems in the first place)

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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        3 days ago

        It’s fucking annoying. CA is a great place to live in a lot of ways but the car culture is so out of control it’s unbelievable.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s because California land is locked up by either entrenched farm families or corporations so building any new infrastructure means buying extremely overpriced land from people who don’t want to sell it. Now you know why all budgets for CA rail explode: owners are jacking up the price of empty land to soak up as many billions as can be offered for the entire project. Farmers are greedy by nature and try to extract as much as they can from everything and everyone, including government budgets.

      The only solution for now is to use existing infrastructure until the land can be sold for fair market value or imminent domain. And imminent domain would ruin a political career in the state with fuel for the right wing propaganda machine to smear nationwide.

      • FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Sure would be nice to convert a lane of each side of those 4 lane freeways to a railway? Seems like there is already lots of transportation allocated land right along major commute ways.