{"id":49485,"date":"2021-01-07T05:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/letter-taxpayers-shouldnt-pay-for-electric-car-fuel\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:33:05","slug":"letter-taxpayers-shouldnt-pay-for-electric-car-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/letter-taxpayers-shouldnt-pay-for-electric-car-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Taxpayers shouldn\u2019t pay for electric car \u201cfuel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk is now worth tens of billions from a company subsidized by the federal government and many electric car buyers have received these subsidies. Now Montezuma County taxpayers are forced to subsidize the electric car owners\u2019 fuel purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Warm and fuzzy as it may feel, persons who may be struggling to get by should not pay for this service with their property taxes. It is just not right.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_letters_name\">George Dewell<\/em><em class=\"mwc_letters_town\">Dolores<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk is now worth tens of billions from a company subsidized by the federal government and many electric car buyers have received these subsidies. Now Montezuma County taxpayers are forced to subsidize the electric car owners\u2019 fuel purchases. Warm and fuzzy as it may feel, persons who may be struggling to get by should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49485"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}