From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):
Transportation is the number one source of America’s global warming pollution. We need to do everything we can to transition to clean, electric vehicles — as soon as possible.1
But the administration plans to end a key program to help people buy electric cars.
Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=30577 to tell our senators: Don’t let the administration pull the plug on electric cars.
In October, the U.S. reached 1 million plug-in electric vehicles sold. We still have a long way to go to make clean, electric cars the norm, but things are heading in the right direction.
But in December, the administration announced a plan that would slow our progress down: ending tax credits for electric vehicles.2
Right now, people who buy electric vehicles are usually eligible for thousands of dollars in tax credits to offset the cost of a new car. The credit ranges from $2,500 to $7,500, depending on the car sold, and it applies to the first 200,000 cars sold by each manufacturer.3
If anything, we should expand this credit, getting rid of the 200,000-car cap and making it apply to more cars and trucks than it currently does. We should make it easier, not harder, for people to buy electric vehicles.
This investment in electric vehicles is crucial. The effects of global warming are hitting hard and fast, and transitioning to all-electric transportation is going to be a long and difficult challenge. We need to do everything we can right now to move in that direction.
Tell Congress: Don’t make it harder for electric cars.
- Umair Irfan, “Cars and trucks are America’s biggest climate problem for the 2nd year in a row,” Vox, January 14, 2018.
- “White House seeks to end subsidies for electric cars, renewables,” Reuters, December 3, 2018.
- Umair Irfan, “Cars and trucks are America’s biggest climate problem for the 2nd year in a row,” Vox, January 14, 2018.
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