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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

*convicted felon Donald Trump

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I mean to be fair, the Chinese EVs are largely fake...

But, EVs in general are still the way of the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean to be fair, the Chinese EVs are largely fake…

What does that even mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9hrB8RxFA&list=PL7Jmz7UMvd9HtUALvojvaA_RazWI0yy8U&index=1 Here's a show for ya

Basically, China has a bad habit of faking technological innovations as a PR stunt, with many of their Electric Vehicles being explosive combustion engines made to look EV to outsiders.

They have also claimed to have revived Karl Marx as an AI who "revealed" that he was "totally chinese the whole time"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sure they put a 100% tax on them because once you pop the hood the engine is 4 hamsters in wheels and everyone who drove these cars are paid CCP actors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Which are electric, so...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article updated it's headline to clarify that it wasn't all EV sales. You can edit your post title to reflect that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Good catch. Just updated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

So does this mean Elon Musk turned down the offer to be official envoy to Mexico?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A man of "freedom of choice" and "free market" I see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

As long as both of those choices refer to his buddies that pay him

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

The car companies have already built the infrastructure for EV’s, this isn’t going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump wants to ban all EV sales despite what Americans want.
Biden wants to ban China EV sales despite what Americans want.
About what we can expect from this stupid fucking election.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Biden wants to ban China EV sales despite what Americans want.

No. Biden wants to enact protectionist policies that increase the price of Chinese EVs. It's true that some Dems are suggesting Chinese EVs be banned, notably Sherrod Brown. There are actually some pretty good arguments for doing so.

But I gotta be honest, if paying a bit more for a cheap ass brand new car is the worst of your concerns... well, I suggest you pay closer attention.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No. There is no reason to protect the American auto companies. They sold out 80% of Americans to a policy of profiting off of selling fewer, more expensive cars in a world that they lobbied to make cars mandatory to exist in almost all of the United States.

What about that closer attention ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you're right. The worst of my concerns is Biden's insistence on making us complicit in a brutal genocide for a fascist foreign power.

Needlessly doubling the price of electric cars and bikes, collecting the difference as a tax on lower income Americans who would have most benefited from these much cheaper forms of personal transportation, while also posing as the environmentalist candidate, is just one example of the crock of shit we're expected to participate in this year. Let's just acknowledge that Biden is only here to defend and uphold billionaires, in this case, the ones who own the US car industry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Republicans are worse in every aspect you talk about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Totally correct, and that doesn't make Biden any better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It doesn't make Democrats any better than they are, but at least with Democrats you can have confidence that there will be another election in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Looks like he's going after two items:

  • EV tax credits
  • Tailpipe emissions
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