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Gas War Profiteering is Killing Us All!
Carried over from WARNING: SLC buyers beware!!! : http://www.cngchat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8402
Wow, spoken just like a true used car salesmen or a CE exec.
What was Robnholly thinking? Expecting integrity from a used car salesman, what rock have they been living under.
Don't they read this forum, "Gas War Profiteering" is the order of the day, especially in Utah.
And so we see a glimmer of light, the light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel that leads to the beginning of the end!
Wow, Deja Vu.
Flashback to Arizona shortly after the fevered pitch and dull thud of Y2K, someone in the state legislature thought it would be a good idea to encourage Arizonans to use alternative fuels. Reduce tail pipe emmissions and clear the air so we could actually see our pristine desert landscape, sounds like an honorable intention. We'll give people a $10,000 dollar tax credit toward the purchase of alt fuel vehicles or the conversion of gasoline vehicles to run on alt fuels and we'll let them spread the tax credit out over 5 years. A $2,000 a year for 5 years tax "credit" sounds like a great idea. Oh No! says a genius state bean counter, it would "cost" too much to administer a program like that over a 5 year period. Let's just give them the whole tax break in one year, and if they don't make enough to defer thier taxes, we'll just write them a tax "rebate" check. That will work, besides not many people other than fleets, will take advantage of this, Right?
Overnight, the price of an alt fuel vehicle or conversion kit jumped from a few thousand dollars to, you guessed it, $ 10,000.00. Every shade tree mechanic, gas fireplace installer and Joe off the street was suddenly in the conversion business and every car and truck dealer scrambled to buy every alt fuel vehicle, nationwide, for whatever it cost. The vultures were now circling, let the feeding frenzy begin!
By the time the state woke up and smelled to coffee, those same bean counters estimated that the State of Arizona was about to be bled for about 1/2 a billion dollars(read: $500,000,000.00 that the state had not budgeted for). The program came to a screeeeching halt.
By the time the dust settled, the state figured that the Grosscost (not a typo, but the name of one of the legislators responsible)was "only" $104,000,000.00. And the consumers were left with lots of dangerous, badly installed, non funtional conversion kits, that most have since been removed and scrapped.
The few that remained working, at least once a year for emmissions testing, eventually were given alt fuel plates and a really cheap registration and the ability to drive solo in the carpool (HOV) lane. So a bi-fuel Hummer or Suburban, with a 4GGE tank in the back pays $36 a year for a clean air plate and gets to drive solo in the carpool lane while getting 8-10 MPG running gasoline.
And there you have the story of "The Arizona Alternative Fuels Fiasco".
Any of this ringing a bell?
Wow, spoken just like a true used car salesmen or a CE exec.
What was Robnholly thinking? Expecting integrity from a used car salesman, what rock have they been living under.
Don't they read this forum, "Gas War Profiteering" is the order of the day, especially in Utah.
And so we see a glimmer of light, the light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel that leads to the beginning of the end!
Wow, Deja Vu.
Flashback to Arizona shortly after the fevered pitch and dull thud of Y2K, someone in the state legislature thought it would be a good idea to encourage Arizonans to use alternative fuels. Reduce tail pipe emmissions and clear the air so we could actually see our pristine desert landscape, sounds like an honorable intention. We'll give people a $10,000 dollar tax credit toward the purchase of alt fuel vehicles or the conversion of gasoline vehicles to run on alt fuels and we'll let them spread the tax credit out over 5 years. A $2,000 a year for 5 years tax "credit" sounds like a great idea. Oh No! says a genius state bean counter, it would "cost" too much to administer a program like that over a 5 year period. Let's just give them the whole tax break in one year, and if they don't make enough to defer thier taxes, we'll just write them a tax "rebate" check. That will work, besides not many people other than fleets, will take advantage of this, Right?
Overnight, the price of an alt fuel vehicle or conversion kit jumped from a few thousand dollars to, you guessed it, $ 10,000.00. Every shade tree mechanic, gas fireplace installer and Joe off the street was suddenly in the conversion business and every car and truck dealer scrambled to buy every alt fuel vehicle, nationwide, for whatever it cost. The vultures were now circling, let the feeding frenzy begin!
By the time the state woke up and smelled to coffee, those same bean counters estimated that the State of Arizona was about to be bled for about 1/2 a billion dollars(read: $500,000,000.00 that the state had not budgeted for). The program came to a screeeeching halt.
By the time the dust settled, the state figured that the Grosscost (not a typo, but the name of one of the legislators responsible)was "only" $104,000,000.00. And the consumers were left with lots of dangerous, badly installed, non funtional conversion kits, that most have since been removed and scrapped.
The few that remained working, at least once a year for emmissions testing, eventually were given alt fuel plates and a really cheap registration and the ability to drive solo in the carpool (HOV) lane. So a bi-fuel Hummer or Suburban, with a 4GGE tank in the back pays $36 a year for a clean air plate and gets to drive solo in the carpool lane while getting 8-10 MPG running gasoline.
And there you have the story of "The Arizona Alternative Fuels Fiasco".
Any of this ringing a bell?
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