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Donald Ulrich: Don’t spend my tax money on useless electric cars

Re “State ready to start dealing on electric cars?” (Another View, Sept. 2): For someone who doesn’t believe that modern gas-driven vehicles cause global warming, Assemblyman Phil Ting’s bill is really irritating . A $10,000 incentive to buy an electric car? A $3 billion bill to taxpayers? We have many more important issues for taxpayers to fund. How about higher education? Your statement that electric cars are zero-emission is ridiculous. The electricity has to be generated somewhere, usually with coal or natural gas.

Donald Ulrich, Denair

This story was originally published September 7, 2017 at 10:51 AM with the headline "Donald Ulrich: Don’t spend my tax money on useless electric cars."

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