Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs

• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  German industry is in shambles right now as they allowed an unreliable trade partner, Russia, to completely take over a segment in the German economy (oil & gas). When that unreliable trade partner pulled the rug in 2022, suddenly Germany is paying out the ass for gas for LNG, reducing factory output, even on-lining coal plants to keep the lights on.

  It is simply a bad idea to allow an unreliable trade partner to completely take over a segment in your economy.

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NATO sanctioned themselves. You don’t get to blame Russia for that.

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Russia could've, y'know, just not done and illegal invasion of Ukraine.

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      • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Russians didn’t cut off natural gas supplies, or refused to pay for the commodity. The EU sanctioned themselves. What’s next? Blame the bombing of NORD-stream pipeline 2 on the Russian invasion? Don’t even discuss legality. Ukraine was legally bound to neutrality by the treaty for their independence. Western news media won’t tell you that.

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  • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Germany voluntarily divested from Russian gas for political reasons. If Germany was run by more “rationally greedy” business men I’m sure Russia would have happily kept trading with them despite the war. It’s probably why certain mysterious actors cut off nord stream 2, to make sure Germany’s moral compass would not falter in the future either

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    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fossil fuels are the underpinning of industrial civilization. It was fossil fuels that made the industrial revolution possible, it wasn’t solar panels, and wind turbines, or heavy, giant batteries.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand what your point is here? Fossil fuels were instrumental in the industrial revolution so we have to stick by them forever, planet and people’s health benefits damned?

        Nah. Use the most appropriate tech available. Which is now renewables, electric motors, etc.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was water power dude. Water and Windmills started the industrial revolution. We’ve just been finding better ways to spin electric generator motors since then.

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      • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In my country, it was mostly large dams and hydroelectricity. But they have their own issues.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt that UberEats drivers would be happy with that being called their economy.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s apples and oranges. The German government pulled out of that sector of it’s own will. Largely because they had planned to transition to Nuclear, did not do so, and then did nothing going forward.

    Letting Chinese cars compete is not going kill the big 3 unless they’re criminally negligent at rubbing ta business.

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