mo4ch:>Norway’s electric car miracle is a smug national fraud built on subsidizing rich people with Teslas | Mo4ch News

The government in Oslo spending billions of oil export dollars to help the affluent buy an electric second car they wouldn’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 accounted for 49.8 percent of all cars purchased in the country, and so far this year three in five new cars bought in Norway are electric. For comparison, 2.1 percent of new cars registered in the US last year were 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 in the world.This has burnished the Scandinavian country's credentials as a land populated by uniquely-ethical people.Also on rt.comClean energy dream fu…