{"id":26037,"date":"2022-05-10T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26037"},"modified":"2022-05-11T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:48:38","slug":"image-of-the-day-taxpayers-really-fuel-ev-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26037\/image-of-the-day-taxpayers-really-fuel-ev-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Taxpayers Really Fuel EV Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently sounded the alarm on how the Biden Administration, political left and crony capitalist big business interests are coalescing on an idea almost too bizarre to be real:\u00a0 heaping <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/5901-crony-capitalists-propose-a-carbon-tax-to-reduce-energy-costs-\">new carbon taxes<\/a> on traditional energy sources in order to &#8220;reduce energy costs.&#8221;\u00a0 We subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26034\/image-of-the-day-high-cost-of-green-energy-explains-leftist-calls-for-carbon-tax\/\">illustrated<\/a> one of the main reasons for that novel ploy:\u00a0 so-called &#8220;green&#8221; energy sources are non-competitive without government intervention to artificially make more efficient fossil fuel sources more costly.\u00a0 Courtesy of economist <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/06f6527037b3\/unleash-prosperity-hotline-866676?e=313568bbd7\">Stephen Moore<\/a>, we have another biting illustration of that dynamic:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/7756a4cf-9162-03cb-1a1b-1ef684341931.png\" alt=\"Taxpayers Power \" width=\"558\" height=\"405\" \/> Taxpayers Power &#8220;Green&#8221; EV Initiatives<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with electric vehicles, and in fact they offer a promising future technology.\u00a0 But that should occur via market forces and consumer choice, not artificial government costs and subsidies paid by strapped taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently sounded the alarm on how the Biden Administration, political left and crony capitalist big business interests are coalescing on an idea almost too bizarre to be real:\u00a0 heaping new carbon taxes on traditional energy sources in order to &#8220;reduce energy costs.&#8221;\u00a0 We subsequently illustrated one of the main reasons for that novel ploy:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4400,5059,195,5088,3318,500],"class_list":["post-26037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-carbon-tax","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-energy","tag-evs","tag-green-energy","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26041,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26037\/revisions\/26041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}