Questions - Electric Cars - February 18-19, 2012
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National
Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted February 18-19, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
1* How closely have you followed
recent news stories about electric-powered cars?
2* Electric cars are more expensive
than traditional cars, with base costs ranging from $32,000 to 42,000. A
proposal has been made to give $10,000 government subsidies to the purchasers
of electric cars. Do you favor or oppose government subsidies to encourage the
purchase of electric cars?
3* The Obama administration hopes
to have one million electric cars on the road by 2015. To reach that goal, the
subsidy program could cost the federal government $10 billion. Do you favor or
oppose having the federal government spend $10 billion over four years to
subsidize the purchase of electric cars?
4* Should
people who earn more than $150,000 per year receive a $10,000 grant from the
government to reduce the cost of purchasing an electric car? Or should people
who earn more than $150,000 a year pay for the full cost of the car themselves?
5* Will the electric car industry ever make money on its
own or will it always require government subsidies to stay in business?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence