The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose. Nobody has to lose their jobs.
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Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 months ago
"Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman accused President Biden of being “willing to sacrifice the American auto industry and its workers in service of its radical green agenda."
I mean we could try and transition workers from a more negative industry type to a positive one...but that seems like a lot of work and less profitable, so never mind.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As an American auto worker, I like our move to EVs and the jobs at the massive new factories we built. But I guess wanting blue collar workers learning new skills and technologies makes me a gay communist.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why gay?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All communists are gay trans fairy men who love satan and hate guns. Didn’t you get the pamphlet?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Two groups conservatives hate.
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because nonsensical insults are their bread and butter, and just being a communist isn’t good enough anymore.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
Because it’s part of the communist agenda.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
Tesla is an American company. The ‘traditional’ American auto companies like GM and Ford don’t even build or source a lot of their parts in the US and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep has been owned by a European company for quite a while now. This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.
It’s no wonder. He’s a Republican, so that automatically makes him a assbag. Also, Toyota has a Camry manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ford assembles Escapes in Louisville, and of course GM makes Corvettes in Bowling Green, so it’s no surprise that he’d be regressive towards automotive tech (even though Ford and SK are spending like $4 billion to build two battery manufactuing plants outside Louisville).
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe someone should create EV incentives, with a requirement to be manufactured in country - both incentive to buy and incentive to manufacturers to invest in guaranteed growth area, and for their own future. Oops, that’s what we already have
ebc@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
They already do: Ford has the Mach-E & F-150 Lightning plus a bunch of PHEVs, GM has (had) the Bolt, Stellantis makes a few PHEVs among which one of the the very few cars on the market that can carry 7 passengers on battery power (the Chrysler Pacifica) altough that one is made in Canada, not the US.
Oh, and all of Tesla.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose.
I find that very hard to believe.
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of manufacturers are. They just aren’t making as many EVs as they are ICE.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s also nothing stopping the big three from making EVs.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 months ago
And making more than the minimum the government requires them to make for quota. Demand is even there now, so there's no excuse other than the bottom line, plus a bit of cooperation with the oil companies.
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah but it’s cheaper to just kill the competition than expand into a whole new sector.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So I keep hearing people say:
“Just wait until the big players get into the game, then I’ll buy a good car”.
Imo the big players don’t deserve to survive this transition. They had their opportunity to spearhead it but instead literally chose to be on the wrong side of history.
Nothing stopping but players but greed to get into the EV game.
frezik@midwest.social 6 months ago
Perhaps they’d like to rollback all the times we’ve bailed out the auto industry. We don’t want the government to be choosing winners and loser, after all.
lunar17@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m really tired of republicans calling anything democrats do “radical” or “extreme” when they’re just pushing for the most mild stuff. I would die for some actual radical left ideas.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I don’t know what this guy is pissed about. China is going to make their EVs in Mexico, like reaponsible American companies!
XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
They’ve already made contracts and announcements for France as well.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The funny part is that the US could just subsidize their EVs at the same rate and keep China out, but they’d rather sacrifice their whole auto industry to keep subsidizing oil.
jaybone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not even less profitable.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s weird, because my Ford PHEV was assembled in Kentucky.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s almost like one of the main functions a functioning federal government is to create and regulate new markets. But why bother politicians with work when they can just try to bully people into complacency.
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
and its worker
UAW got bipartisan support, right?
kescusay@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What the actual fuck is wrong with Republican politicians? I mean, I already know what’s wrong with Republican voters - brainwashing by years of Fox “News” - but the politicians? Are they all actual, literal sociopaths?
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, they’re just doing what they’re being paid to do by special interest groups aka big business. It’s not a bug and it’s not a feature; it’s the point. Optimal profits this quarter. Every quarter is a new quasi generation of executives who want a good quarter before moving on after x quarters.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The philosophy behind conservativism is to stay still. Conserve the status. Do not progress.
barsquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But you’re describing a standard Dem. Repubs are actively trying to drag us backwards. They are regressives.
skatrek47@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m already depressed as it is. Why do you have to do me in like that?
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a popular misconception. The philosophy behind conservatism is to perpetuate hierarchy. The ideology was developed by literal monarchists, and when the “divine right” excuse became untenable they moved on to others like racism and capitalism, but the goal remained the same. It only seems like they want to maintain the status quo because the historical status quo was hierarchical, but rest assured: if society were magically egalitarian instead, conservatives would vigorously try to make sweeping, wholesale changes to create a hierarchy from scratch.
Resonosity@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Interesting insight. Thanks for the correction. Perhaps the choice of lexeme “conservatism” would best be swapped for a neologism like “hierarchism” or something to better describe the principles of the school of thought. Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.
satanmat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Correct.
They are in charge and are going to do everything to keep it that way.
As you said.
evatronic@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.
You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”
When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s been so long that the inmates are running the asylum in the GOP these days.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You gotta know at this point the system has feedback. Its possible most of them were raised on the same shit their constituents are huffing.
Uranium3006@kbin.social 6 months ago
ever since the tea party and especially trump the inmates are running the asylum
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
Nah before that was Bush and Cheney getting us into decades long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because some Saudis attacked us.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
When you brainwashed for generations, you end with brainwashed in politics. This is just the beginning.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Yes.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s just simple corruption (or lobby, as it’s called in the US), they are saying what the highest bidder asks them to say
freebee@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
rustbelting makes voters transition from democrat to republican. you could argue that they actually benefit from declining industry, so of course they’re going for it
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 6 months ago
omg politicians being bad I’m absolutely gobsmacked