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That's not the problem. Ford sells 50 and $70k pickup trucks all day but the buyers of those vehicles are part of a tribe that's tribally opposed to clean vehicles.
Remember actions and words do not match here. Many of those people are happy to verbally say the support clean vehicles and such. However they are buying big trucks with big engines. They will vote for someone who says "get the oil company", but if gas prices actually go up they will vote for someone else (and the people they vote for know it and so in turn say kill the oil companies, but when the oil companies want something the get it)
That is because The Govs. give huge tax rebates & Etc. programs to lower the costs to consumers.
Remember economics out ways everything else, if they could not afford them, they would not buy them.
‘The Crazy Don’ cancelled the lesser money back programs for EVs.
...do those programs not apply to EVs?
They absolutely can and do. There are entire industries based on this. They sent the entire world into a recession ~20 years ago.
Wait a sec. are you asking are not Electric powered Trucks/Pickups not covered by the same rebate & Etc. Govs.’ programs for Trucks/Pickups? Well, if you are, you be frustrated to know, only gas powered trucks/pickups qualify!
No, credit only goes so far. So no, they do not. Whole truck industry yes, propped-up by those programs.
The pickup truck buyers absolutely did not do that! Is was a HOUSING CRISES, illegal, like con artist, claims of owning people’s homes, illegal mortgages & Etc. practices still never dealt with, but during it The Dem. ‘90+% Capitalist’ Party & USA President Obama & his administration worked with Wall Street Vikings (thought about using pirates, but they were better than both, they had something like COOP before COOP; I am 100% sure The Rep. ‘Crazy Capitalist’ Party was also on board) like Mr. Diamond to illegally steal people’s houses, instead helping the people fight the illegal taking of their houses/survive!
Source- Independent, Political Left & Rich-Rich Economic Classes’/Owners’ money does not have influence on what they broadcast: ‘Free Speech’ & ‘Democracy Now’ (https://www.democracynow.org/topics/housing)!
What rebates are you referring to?
That what you can find-out through DuckDuckGo, not doing the work for you.
Yeah I didn't think so.
I did not need to look it up, it is on The Internet, mentioned on ‘Free Speech’ program years ago (they only option from the past, but you could call a political show), in commercials & when one goes to buy a pickup, from a dealer- I have only owned used automobiles. Since you do, & there all those resources you can easily do the work!