You can't afford the car, why should you pay for their free electricity?!!-----Michigan Utility Customers Subsidizing High-End Electric Cars – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Michigan Utility Customers Subsidizing High-End Electric Cars – Michigan Capitol Confidential:

• State’s big utilities giving subsidies for plug-in charging stations

"In a push to encourage drivers to shift from from gas-powered cars to plug-in electric vehicles, Consumers Energy recently announced a program to subsidize the installation of charging stations. Dubbed the PowerMIDrive program, the Jackson-based gas and electric utility’s initiative pays EV owners $400 subsidies to install car chargers at home. 
It also provides businesses amounts ranging from $5,000 to $70,000 to put chargers in their parking lots.
Most of the payments so far have gone to individuals and companies in nine counties, subsidizing some 50 charging stations altogether.
They are: Charlevoix, Muskegon, Kent, Allegan, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Jackson, Saginaw and Midland counties.
...DTE, Michigan’s other big utility company, has introduced a similar program in its territory...
“It’s reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor to give to the rich,” said Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center.
...Hayes added that he has no problem if the company wants to invest its private funds into EV infrastructure, “but when they use the force of the government to push me, an unwilling participant, into funding their business exploits, that’s a totally different thing.”
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