• Ech@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    As if the domestic makers aren’t 90% Chinese parts anyway.

    Hence the steel production collapse I mentioned.

    There’s something to be said about subsidizing corporate profits, but there is a limit to how much they can compete with production from places like China that have notoriously cheap production. Especially if we also take wage issues in the US into consideration. It’s not cheap to pay affordable wages.

    As for the type of cars built domestically, I can only imagine that local ev competition would help crib the “planet killers”. Foreign cars are hardly going to change that.

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      7 months ago

      There’s something to be said about subsidizing corporate profits

      There’s everything to say about this. Taxpayers have bailed out the Big Three how many times now? Ford, GM, and Stellantis should have gone bankrupt 10x over. Maybe we could’ve actually had a pro-consumer domestic market and not the hostage situation we have now with their lobbyists fixing congress for the past century.

      As for the type of cars built domestically, I can only imagine that local ev competition would help crib the “planet killers”. Foreign cars are hardly going to change that

      Kinda like how the domestic makers handicapped EV adoption at every step for the past three decades? They have absolutely no interest in providing good, reliable, and sustainable cars for people. The profits are in massive, energy inefficient, loaded with who-asked-for-this? ‘‘features’’ and they know full well that the only way to sell these to people is by making fair competition illegal.