• enbyecho@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Biden wants to ban China EV sales despite what Americans want.

    No. Biden wants to enact protectionist policies that increase the price of Chinese EVs. It’s true that some Dems are suggesting Chinese EVs be banned, notably Sherrod Brown. There are actually some pretty good arguments for doing so.

    But I gotta be honest, if paying a bit more for a cheap ass brand new car is the worst of your concerns… well, I suggest you pay closer attention.

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      5 months ago

      No, you’re right. The worst of my concerns is Biden’s insistence on making us complicit in a brutal genocide for a fascist foreign power.

      Needlessly doubling the price of electric cars and bikes, collecting the difference as a tax on lower income Americans who would have most benefited from these much cheaper forms of personal transportation, while also posing as the environmentalist candidate, is just one example of the crock of shit we’re expected to participate in this year. Let’s just acknowledge that Biden is only here to defend and uphold billionaires, in this case, the ones who own the US car industry.

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      5 months ago

      No. There is no reason to protect the American auto companies. They sold out 80% of Americans to a policy of profiting off of selling fewer, more expensive cars in a world that they lobbied to make cars mandatory to exist in almost all of the United States.

      What about that closer attention ?