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Toyota wants in on Volt's tax breaks - feels threatened?
http://blogs.automobilemag.com/62836...aks/index.html
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There should be no breaks.
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I think there should be, especially if it means an american company gets the rebate. A lot of the hybrids are already overpriced. Plus with the economy going south will prompt people to buy a car that you get a rebate on
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I hate all tax breaks like this. Besides, we will need all that tax money to build infrastrucutre to handle all these plug ins. Our current grid can't cope. |
More three mile islands ... woot
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that is my understanding...that makes them buy more cars...so in essence the car makers.
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sounds to me like they just want it to be fair....if the Volt gets a tax break, so should the toyota. whats good for the goose should be good for the gander. Prius sales are at an all time high so i dont think they feel threatened. they just want it to be fair game to the customer when they're choosing between the 2.
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Toyota is move Prius production to the US. What about those US workers?
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Its all about where the money goes in the end. Looking at the short term, its nice that toyota is hiring americans to build their cars here. but the profits from each of those cars is going to a foreign country |
Japanese Goverment, even with thier "recession" for years helped fund the hybrid development for Toyota and Honda.
The US shuns the Big 3 as GM has had to do the development for the Volt's battery system all to themselves with no Goverment help. Toyota should get nothing. 10 mile range? Uh yeah, real good, and then the engine runs the car, not a generator. The "plug in" Prius is a semi-plug in. You plug in to charge the batteries, but the gas engine still opperates like a normal gas engine to drive the wheels. Volt will use the engine to power electric motors. Two VERY different cars. They should get **** for tax breaks. |
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I actually agree for the very reasons Al listed. But with a topic like this there are so many sides/angles to consider, so I played a bit of devil's advocate. Now back to the sites with old guys to rile them up about the AIG bailout.... :)
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House passed the bill that would mandate an alternative fuel pump at every station, Volt could get up to a 5k tax credit.
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***** Japanese cars.... GM should get all the breaks in the world:nod:
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Anything that keeps our money from leaving the US and encourages americans to use less energy cant be bad in my book.
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Regardless of what you buy you are putting money into American pockets... Big deal if a cut of it goes to a non American company - So long as they continue to build cars here and provide a quality car for an affordable price. |
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That isn't true. If you buy a Import car, some of it or parts were manufactured in the US. A american worker may of made or worked on that part but where does the majority of that money go? To the corporation and Nissan,toyota,hyndai aren't a american based corporation. |
so giving a foreign company some of your money that puts food on the table of thousands upon thousands of American workers is still a bad thing? Explain to me how you or your typical American benefits from buying a "domestic" car that isn't even built in America over an "import" car that is? Do you feel better giving your money to a handful of billionaire American executives rather than a handful of Japanese ones? They both use the money the exact same way: to build more crap for you to buy.
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Just because that new toyota you bought says built in america... doesnt mean it was made here. What it should really say is assembled in america. The motor, transmission and all other major components are built overseas and they use a combination of robots and american workers to put the parts together into a car. Saves them the extra tax of importing a car and they get to say "made in america." The majority of the man/hours to make the car are used in forigen countries and all of the R/D costs are spent outside of our boarders too.
Atleast that is how I understand it. If im wrong, please inform me. |
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