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The Kochs are plotting a multimillion-dollar assault on electric vehicles
2016-02-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Billionaires Charles and David Koch, prominent donors to conservative causes, are now looking to put their money behind an advocacy group that would promote petroleum-based transportation fuel and fight government subsidies for electric cars, sources say. The oil and gas industry may have thought it had killed the electric car, but sales -- boosted by generous government subsidies -- rose dramatically between 2010 and 2014, and energy giants are worried the thing may have come back to life. Time...
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