How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
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How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
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They didn't get left behind. They kicked and screamed in denial the whole time. The US government and the US car manufacturers put themselves into this position.
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I just wish that factory workers wouldn't be so impacted by the failures of the executives who wanted to make their own money by milking reputations and product lines without investing in the future. Like, if Stellantis had to shut down, it would be well deserved, but it would suck for the normal people at the bottom.
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When the company wins, the executives win. When the company loses, the workers lose.
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They didn’t get “left behind”, they intentionally denied reality.
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You could replace "electric car" in the title with education, telecommunications, internet, etc. and it'd also still be true.
Stubbornness and proactive regression and denialism and rejectionism and asshole privilege are a hell of a drug cocktail.
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From my uninformed perspective, it kind of seems like the ruling class in America said, "Oh, we can make a lot of money and improve the environment and lives of all of our people?" and said, "No. We've got to sell oil."
The Biden administration actually tried to do that, but the American people rather wanted to poison the planet by turning their county into a petro dictatorship.
You mean the oligarchies that have destroyed fair elections.
That sucks. Having a two party system will eventually lead to this though.
Yeah it was the opposite of the ruling class, it was the fuck knuckles all over America
You’re only improving the local environment in the sense that local emissions are lowered. However, You’re just outsourcing the pollution to Third World countries that are doing the mining, refining, etc., without any human right protections, labor, protections, pollution protections, etc.
And you have the benefit of overreaching government regulations and justifying the enshitification of existing ICE cars.
So that consumer sees the following:
Tell me how this is a surprising outcome that nobody wants to buy electric cars to save the planet? You get a shittier product you pay more for it and it’s more limiting.
Counterpoint:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo