This is a really pertinent point about green thinking in America: lets spend more money to be green. Those subsidies could have been put to funding Bike to School programs for children who can’t even afford new bicycles.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/2056228/Electric-Car-Subsidies-As-Handouts-For-the-Rich
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