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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Look away Luckyo! You need to keep your bubble intact!
People don't drive Porsches to pick up kids
People don't drive Porsches to soccer practise
Groceries don't fit in a Porsche.
bykenh ( 9056 ) writes:
The Macan is an SUV - people DO use them to haul groceries and pick up kids.
I wonder if there are any subsidies for buying EV/Hybrids in Europe? I wonder if that is skewing the numbers?
bytoutankh ( 1544253 ) writes:
What exactly do you mean with "skewing"? The point of subsidies is to influence choice to produce certain outcomes that are considered beneficial. If the subsidies produce the outcome they seek, then they work. I don't see how the concept of "skewing" fits in that discussion. What is the unskewed baseline?
byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
What exactly do you mean with "skewing"? The point of subsidies is to influence choice to produce certain outcomes that are considered beneficial. If the subsidies produce the outcome they seek, then they work. I don't see how the concept of "skewing" fits in that discussion. What is the unskewed baseline?
The unskewed baseline would be the market outcome without the subsidy. This seems obvious?
Though it's worth pointing out that absent carbon taxes, fossil fuel-powered vehicles have a rather large implicit subsidy, an uninternalized externality. And there are all kinds of other subsidies and taxes going on, so identifying the true unskewed baseline, i.e. what the open market would do absent any government adjustments, is hard.
bytoutankh ( 1544253 ) writes:
You can take another step back. A society built so that car is the default mode of transportation is skewed towards car usage. Exhibit A: the USA.
What is the value of looking at these things in terms of how skewed they are?
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