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USA : Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Survives

Renewable energy as well as the 7,500 dollars electric vehicle tax credit are part of the final tax

Renewable energy subsidies have survived the Republican Tax Reform against popular expectations. The final tax bill signed recently by President Donal Trump displays tax incentives for renewable energy as well as the 7,500 dollar electric vehicle tax credit, the New York Times reported on Thursday. 

During the presidential election campaign, Donald Trump disparaged renewable energy as “very, very expensive” and “not working on a large scale.” He said a wind farm in California looked like a “junk yard” and claimed wind power killed birds in vast numbers. As president, he pulled the United States out of the Paris climate change accord.

House Speaker, Paul D. Ryan called electric vehicle tax credits “money wasted on losers.” The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, said he’d “do away” with renewable energy subsidies. “So it’s no wonder that hardly anyone expected renewable energy subsidies to survive Republican tax reform,” New York Times wrote. In the legislation the House of Representatives passed in November, Republicans drastically curtailed solar and wind power subsidies and put a stake in the heart of the tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles, while preserving billions in subsidies for fossil fuels.

Adam Jonas, an auto industry analyst for Morgan Stanley, called it a “surprise move” that suggests there may be deeper bu...

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