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Big oil doesn't like electric vehicle subsidies, just its own giant subsidy

Today's EVs are usually more expensive than regular vehicles, so they are bought by wealthier people

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Liam Denning | Bloomberg
You may not have heard, but electric vehicles are just another one-percenter boondoggle, Jay Gatsby’s cream-colored Rolls Royce reincarnated and partly paid for by you, the toiling masses, via various subsidies.
 
As an argument, it is tailor-made for an era of anger at “elites.” And it’s one with which I’ve become familiar reading recent letters from organizations such as Koch Industries Inc., affiliates of the American Petroleum Institute and Americans For Prosperity, urging federal and state bodies to forgo support for electric vehicles or their chargers. If wealthier types wish to buy them, so be it, but they should