Political Quotes

“in June of this year, along with my colleagues Senators Inouye, Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry, and Jeffords, I introduced legislation (S. 1848) to provide temporary tax incentives to spur the market for clean fuel vehicles, including natural gas and electric vehicles. While this Congress has no time remaining to consider this proposal, I intend to introduce the legislation in the 105th Congress, and I urge my colleagues to then consider the measure and join me and others in promoting the transformation of our transportation system to cleaner forms of energy. This proposal calls for targeted tax incentives that would, first, remove clean fuel vehicles from the luxury automobile classification for luxury excise tax and depreciation purposes; second, remove the limitations on the availability of credits and deductions for use of electric vehicles by governmental units; third, provide deductions for large electric vans and buses; fourth, adopt a straight, rather than graduated, tax credit for electric vehicles; and fifth, exempt liquefied natural gas from certain taxes.”