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bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

They would dominate because they make a good product that isn’t more expensive than it has to be. US car companies have discontinued most affordable options to try and force people to only buy larger, higher end vehicles that most people have no use for. Now they’re mad that international companies are willing to sell the products they refuse to.

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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yes, usa car companies are bitches. But it is laughable that you think the reason it isn’t more expensive has nothing to do with being subsidized

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- Enelop@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The reason it is vastly less expensive is due to being subsidized. You don’t seem to understand what is being said and can be backed by facts.
  
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  - Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Allowing your local industries to be dominate is common sense. As much as china is smart to subsidize theirs so heavily, the united states isn’t wrong to tariff them
    
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Enelop@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And not the 3.2 million that the government dumped into them…

I’ve heard they are good cars but the price is manipulated.

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- hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  so… how much did does the us government give its auto industry?
  
  They gave us auto companies 81 billion between 2008 and 2014, and continue to subsidize the industry to this day.
  
  pot meet kettle
  
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  - SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    BYD recieved 3.7 billion between 2018-2022 2.2 billion in 2022 alone.
    
    Ford recieved under 500 million in 2022 but did recieve 1.7 billion in 2023.
    
    Ford motor apparently has only recieved 7.7 billion in subsidies since the year 2000. Usually from states rather than fedrally.
    
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  - Enelop@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yet we don’t try to sell into the Chinese market for the express purpose of undercutting their domestic product. It’s common sense to not allow that to happen.
    
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    SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They don’t because no one would pay double the price for a worse vehicle dude….
    
    People are free to import and buy them, what don you think is stopping them…?
    
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