Central Planning's New Plan - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Presto, Chango.With a wave of its wand, Washington creates an electric-car revolution. Only in Washington can a lawyer-turned-one-term-senator from South Chicago walk into the room, propose to remake the entire auto market, and get $11 billion in investment thrown at him.

Did anyone see his business plan?

We’ve seen this game before. Just one year ago, automakers at the very same auto show delivered a promise of millions of flex-fuel, ethanol-capable cars. Central Planning dutifully mandated the production of ethanol fuel, and—presto!—the biofuel revolution almost immediately derailed as food prices soared even as consumers ignored E85 ethanol as an alternative for their cars.

What is a “necessary step for the wide scale adoption of electric vehicles” is that they outperform gas-powered vehicles. Until then, Washington’s billions is just new money following bad.

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