Trump’s ‘no choice’ comment on EVs reveal partisan divide over green tech

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• snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That statement alone says he is a candidate to be bought.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno. I could see him doing that for like $10,000.

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    • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Y’all are spending money on this? Just tell that fart that’s it’s illegal and he’ll do it.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as long as he will wear a hotdog mascot suit every time he’s in public from then on, I can see myself being okay with that

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    • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Brought to you by Carls Jr”

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I have no choice but to change my policy in light of this new bribery”

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It primarily reveals that Trump can simply be bought. He is nothing but a political whore. Weird, isn’t he?

  Will he sell state secrets and tax benefits to the highest bidder if he gets back into the White House? Most likely.

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean again? Would he sell state secrets again? Yes, he would.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It primarily reveals that Trump can simply be bought. He is nothing but a political whore. Weird, isn’t he? Will he sell state secrets and tax benefits to the highest bidder if he gets back into the White House? Most likely definitely.

    FTFY.

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  • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s crazy cause the first time around everyone was talking about how Trump is rich so he can’t be bought like other politicians but looks like that has turned around pretty sharply.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, he used a lot of possibilities during his presidency to make money of it. Just think of the the tax-paid expensive hotel rooms in his hotels for the Secret Service people who had to protect him.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly should stop calling them conservatives, just weirdoes / weirdism

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fash is fine. It’s the same everwhere. No need to respect their phony branding.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You guys just now figured out the conservative element has gone astray from it’s original meaning? Which part did it? The big coal rolling trucks? The absolute denial that there’s a problem with the environment? Ohhhhh, it was the orange moron giving Elon the hover-hand because even American-made EVs are yucky?

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• Modva@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s broadcasting to all businesses and billionaires that anyone who strongly supports him gets their back rubbed right back.

  He’s not saying EVs are great, that we should support them because it’s good policy, the right move for America etc.

  Its simply quid pro quo.

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  • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aka a bribe.

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• NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we were smart, we would let the cheap Chinese EVs flood the US market and drive down prices in the US using competition.

  So much for the invisible hand of the market I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason Chinese EVs are so cheap is because China subsidizes them immensely. They’re basically selling below cost, and expecting private US companies to compete with that impossible price. As long as we allow competitors from other countries in, as well as pushing for electric vehicle usage, the prices will drop. Man companies won’t be able to sell gas cars after 2035 in many large states and countries. People would rather buy an older used gas car than a very expensive electric I bet.

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    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have an ancient ICE car. Like a 2001 Honda. I bought it because it was cheap and the engine good.

      But we subsidize the fossil fuel industry and have historically subsidized the auto industry. Why not do it?

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Subsidize to include worker rights suppression to include the extreme of state sanctioned slavery.

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  • Nougat@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's a touch more complicated than that, because China doesn't let their currency float, which makes Chinese products much cheaper in foreign markets, and foreign products more expensive in China, when the Chinese government allows them in.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and we want to support domestic construction of EVs as well.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In order to do that the US government would need to heavily subsidize EVs the way the Chinese government does.

    I support this… in my view the Chinese government is putting its money out there in order to get more people into an EV. The US should match their efforts.

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    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You mean the way we previously subsidized the regular auto industry and the supporting fossil fuel industries for… 70-90 years?

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i’m not sure heavy subsidization would work the same way in the US. We’ve already seen EV manufacturers adjust their prices based on available tax credits, so i feel like they’d just raise prices even more as subsidies increase. in china the govt can ensure this doesn’t happen.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “partisan divide”?

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