Should the United States promote electric vehicles

Thanks for accepting. My opponent has created a Burden of proof which i would be adding on to. My opponent has to find ways to prove that the government cannot financially support the promotion of electric cars and to add to his burden of proof, i would be arguing that the use of electric cars is both environmentally friendly as well as cost efficient to the owner. Contention One: Environmental needs Going back to my first point Environmental needs, In the recent years there have been a lot of discussions concerning the future of personal vehicles using oil products as a mean of energy, such as cars. The discussion is about global warming, pollution and the dependency upon the non-renewable oil. The global car industries has already begun to show exactly where the future of cars is going and right now it seems as electric cars and hybrid cars is the answer. With the amount of green house gas realized into the atmosphere reduced, it is clear that our people will flourish more and the nature will repopulate many extinct animals. "Electric cars seek to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere by relying on electricity instead of burning gasoline. Electric motors create magnetic fields that spin a rotor which in turn rotates the axle of the car, causing motion. All of this is done without any emission of CO2. Fewer CO2 emissions means fewer greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (http://www.life123.com...). Contention two: subsidy When looking into this resolution, we must see that the benefits of the electric vehicle and hybrid vehicle is so high and beneficial that the amount of subsidies paid to promote this technology will not seem as great as we might think. first let us take our time to examine the one alternative that might change our perspective towards the electric cars financial benefits. Let us look to a "2005 study by the U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimated that three-quarters of the country current small vehicle fleet could be charged by our existing electrical grid without building new power plants. (And if all those cars were replaced by PHEVs, it would eliminate the need for 6.5 billion barrels of oil per day, or 52 percent of current U.S. oil imports.) We have to take in consideration that the United States government although would spend a lot of money in the promotion of this product, its benefits will pay off significantly. Contention Three: cost efficiency Secondly we have to take in consideration that the electric car is a lot more cost efficient than that of a gasoline powered car. . A 2007 study by the non-profit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) calculated that powering a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) would cost the equivalent of roughly 75 cents per gallon of gasoline—a price not seen at the pump for 30 years. 2005 study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimated that three-quarters of the country’s current small vehicle fleet could be charged by our existing electrical grid without building new power plants. Therefore not only will the Electric powered car reduce the amount of money spent by our citizens, it will safe our government from buying a large amount of oil needed for other equipments. (http://www.scientificamerican.com...)