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(Utdrag fra RT-artikkel:)

"Norway`s electric car miracle is a smug national fraud built on subsidizing rich people with Teslas

The government in Oslo spending billions of oil export dollars to help the affluent buy an electric second car they would`t otherwise want is European environmentalism at its phoniest and most hare-brained.

It``s not that you can`t financially encourage societies to be more planet-conscious, but this charade of perverse incentives, inefficiencies, and negative side effects is not it.

Norway``s electric car miracle is primarily one of numbers.

Last year, EVs amounted for 49.8 percent of all cars purchased in the country, and so far this year three in five cars bought in Norway are electric. For comparison, 2.1 percent of new cars registered in the US last year ere EVs, while for the EU the figure is even lower . 0.9 percent.

Thus, with a population of only 5 million, Norway has become the world`s third biggest electric car market.

This has burnished the Scandinavian country`s credentials as a land populated by uniquely-ethical people.

But how has this incredible outlying result been achieved ? Pure shameless bribery from the state.

By dropping VAT, CO2 tax and weight tax a Tesla imported for $70k becomes cheaper than an Audi that cost $35k when it crossed the Norwegian border. Add in the lowered road tax and free passing through toll roads, free passes on ferries and free parking, as well as the difference in the fuel price, such cars are 75 percent cheaper to operate.

Norway is spending about $2 billion each year on the subsidies - as much as it expends on parental leave pay - and with the current uptake rate and existing rules the current figure will balloon into the tens of billions."

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Unsurprisingly, studies show that rich people are many times more likely to invest in an electric car - particularly since there are few second-hand ones available - than poor people. And then they still use it less than their main car.

One thing it replaces though is public transport, which becomes less financially attractive, and more troublesome, what with the EVs clogging all the dedicated bus lanes they are allowed to use.

But forget all the numbers, the failure of this policy was predictable just on an intuitive level. As it is any time you use grotesque market distortions to force people to obtain an inferior product."

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But Norway doesn`t really care about the world. It claims to be setting an example to other countries. But its electric car revolution is unaffordable to any but the wealthiest states. And its uniqueness appears to be a way for a privileged society with a superiority complex to smugly signal its exceptionalism, its self-proclaimed progressiveness. Let them drive Teslas.

By Igor Ogorodnev, Senior writer at RT."