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November 03, 2017 11:21 AM UTC

George Brauchler: Make Electric Cars More Expensive!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

We’re not making that up–flagging GOP gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler really Tweeted his support for making electric cars cost more, qualifier-free–a strange campaign plank to say the least:

Why on earth would you say something like this? The CNET article Brauchler links to explains:

Right now, buyers of electrified vehicles might be eligible for up to $7,500 in federal tax credits. But that could change — and fast — if a new tax bill becomes law.

A new bill proposed by House Republicans could eliminate the federal electric tax credit without any sort of drawdown period, Bloomberg reports. While the credits won’t disappear tomorrow, they might be eliminated after the 2017 tax year if this bill becomes law.

If killing the electric vehicle tax credit sounds like a good idea to you, you most likely work for the fossil fuel industry. For just about everyone else, tax credits to encourage the purchase of zero-emission electric vehicles are a no-brainer. Here in Colorado, we’ve gone even further to help consumers take advantage of these credits at the time of sale rather than having to wait until their next tax filing–which has proven very popular with both car dealers and car buyers.

We assume that’s what Brauchler is complaining about. Shame on you, electric car buyers!

This fumbled talking point is obviously meant to appeal to the oil and gas industry as Brauchler’s campaign continues to struggle. Unfortunately for Brauchler, Walker Stapleton has already locked down the “I’m running to serve the oil and gas industry” slot in this primary. If Brauchler wants to demonstrate he can be a better shill for the industry, he really needs to work on his delivery.

“Vote Brauchler to pay more!” It’s not a winning slogan, folks.

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17 thoughts on “George Brauchler: Make Electric Cars More Expensive!

  1. Picture it, January 2019….

    Governor Broccoli addresses the legislature and asks for a hefty tax on EV's. house and Senate minority leaders Patrick Neville and Tim Neville scratch their heads. Will Democrats vote to put a tax increase on EV's in the ballot per TABOR? 

    Can't wait to see how Moderatus squares this circle…

        1. Neville is WAAAAAYYYY to the right of SD-16.  Also, we have roughly 5 seats to defend and only 2 offense opportunities for the state Senate.  If we want the majority, we need compete hard in both of those seats as badly as we need to defend our seats.

      1. That is way too complicated a chain of causation for a prosecutor like Broccoli to grasp.

        BTW Michael, everyone (at least in the GOP) knows that electricity doesn't come from coal and gas, it comes from the electric outlets in our homes and offices.

         

        1. If you check with Moderatus, I’ll bet you learn that, more precisely, electricity comes from those two little slits in that plastic thing hanging on the wall . . . 

      2. Meanwhile, "Who moved my cheese?" 

        Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

        Trump has promised to revive coal by rolling back environmental regulations and moved to repeal Obama-era curbs on carbon emissions from power plants. 

        “I have a lot of faith in President Trump,” Sylvester said. 

        But hundreds of coal-fired plants have closed in recent years, and cheap natural gas continues to erode domestic demand. The Appalachian region has lost about 33,500 mining jobs since 2011, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission.

         

        1. This is the thing that really throws me for a loop.

          This attitude that "I can only be a coal miner because my daddy was a coal miner (until he died in that mine collapse in 1980), and his brother was a coal miner (until black lung took him in 1990), and my grand daddy was a coal miner (until he died from black lung in 1964), and his daddy was a coal miner…."

          WTF, maybe my family was unique but each generation strove to give their children a better future. 

      1. It’s the American way: . . . 

        1.  Ultra-wealthy people would be buying them faster than you can say “private yacht” or “lear jet” (mostly because only ultra-wealthy people could afford them).

        2.  Ultra-wealthy people would demand tax credits and lower taxes (that is their birthright as ultra-wealthy people).

        3.  The Republican Party only exists to serve the desires of the ultra-wealthy.  Republican legislators would be falling all over themselves to hand out tax credits and cuts (that mostly benefit the ultra-wealthy).

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