Spending instead on subsidizing electric cars is putting the cart before the horse, and an inconvenient and expensive cart at that.
Ironic also is that these twin ideologies both put the cart before the horse.
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In so doing, the administration placed the cart before the horse, with predictable results.
Typical to these in-the-public-eye head-games they intentionally have the cart before the horse.
"It was a case of putting the cart before the horse, " he said.
But it also looks slightly like putting the cart before the horse.
Many reckon that, in attempting to create a black middle class by fiat, Mr Mbeki is putting the cart before the horse.
"It's premature to put the cart before the horse, " Biden said Thursday.
To put it simply: Reich believes that the cart pushes the horse.
The thinking here is backwards, and puts the cart before the horse.
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In that sense, Cornett has put the cart before the horse.
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"Don't put the cart before the horse" said the Welsh Secretary.
He said the PfG would now have to fit in in with the budget, something which he described as "putting the cart before the horse".
The SDLP's Sean Farren, Finance Minister in the suspended administration, accused Mr Pearson of "putting the cart before the horse" in terms of plans for water charges.
In the first place, locking in specific reductions for U.S. forces prior to the conclusion of the ongoing Nuclear Posture Review is putting the cart before the horse.
The roads were barely wide enough for a horse cart, and often I looked over the face of a crumbling mountain, forcing myself to think of something other than death.
Thirteen years ago he penned a book, still in print, called Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision-Making, which says that most corporate executives put the cart before the horse.
The practices of the U.N. observers on the ground confirm that their current mission has been convoluted with political goals, and this is tantamount to putting the cart before the horse.
"I think we are putting the cart before the horse here to get this stuff rolled out very fast, " said Ed Skoudis, a co-founder of InGuardians, a network security research and consulting firm.
At the present time the US has the cart before the horse like all western nations and where the ideas phase at the fundamental level is not even part of the innovation chain.
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Economists who advocate raining down dollar, euro, and yen bills from their high-flying helicopters say this needs to be done to gin up flagging demand, but this puts the cart before the horse.
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Indeed, correlation is frequently not causation, and while growing economies by definition need more money, to pump money into an economy without the growth first is to put the proverbial cart before the horse.
They also provide a barrier between the affluent and beggars, junk collectors, basket sellers, fishmongers and job seekers that trawl up and down the streets daily ringing bells and knocking on doors looking for handouts, some on foot and some on horse cart.
Putting the cart before the horse, the EPA issued preliminary clean up goals for dioxin on December 31, 2009 before the agency had completed a new risk assessment on the chemical, widely perceived as one of most toxic environmental pollutants (the assessment is due by the end of this year).
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But DoJ is trying to drive a horse and cart through this very idea.
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Besides, the question of scalability is often a matter of placing the proverbial cart before the proverbial horse.
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Motorised vehicles are banned, so transportation is by horse and cart.
The journey continues on the other side by horse drawn cart.
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