{"id":547516,"date":"2010-04-29T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2010-04-29T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:43:02","slug":"germany-study-says-electric-car-incentives-could-%e2%80%9cplunder-treasuries%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547516","title":{"rendered":"Germany Study Says Electric Car Incentives Could \u201cPlunder Treasuries\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7362\" title=\"1996 EV1\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/ev12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/>Electric cars are coming; this much we know. After decades of promises, it seems like electric cars will finally be a reality. But it isn&#8217;t happening organically, or rather, due to consumer demand. Instead governments around the world are dolling out billions of dollars in low-interest loans and tax incentives to get people to buy electric cars. It is sort of like encouraging a kid to be nice by giving him candy.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent study by a collection of German\u00a0environmental\u00a0groups says that not only are the benefits of electric cars to the enviroment minimal, but the billions in incentives will &#8220;plunder treasuries&#8221; of\u00a0governments\u00a0worldwide. I wonder if pirates conducted the study?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/29\/germany-study-says-electric-car-incentives-could-plunder-treasuries\/#more-7361\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars are coming; this much we know. After decades of promises, it seems like electric cars will finally be a reality. But it isn&#8217;t happening organically, or rather, due to consumer demand. Instead governments around the world are dolling out billions of dollars in low-interest loans and tax incentives to get people to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}