Trump vows to end ‘madness’ of EV push
Trump vows to end ‘madness’ of EV push
Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan. In a pair of Truth Social …
In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday evening, Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry and President Biden’s push for more electric vehicles. With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.
The Biden administration has pushed to boost electric car sales, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicting that two-thirds of new car sales could be electric by 2032 under a new proposal released by the administration earlier this year. Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.
Old man yells at sky
129Old man urges investment in horses, buggys, and oats.
59I don't know, all those liberal coffee shops are selling oat milk. Can't the horses eat something more Republican like corn?
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Literally. He really should be mad at climate change for fueling the need for EVs.
14Car*
1Can we push some EVs off a cliff onto his head?
And then build functional public transit for everyone.
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Only the fucking Republicans would end up against innovation.
The anti-progress culture war bullshit is overdone and tired. Give it a rest and let everyone else move on without you.
56Republicans hate change. They hate that they no longer run the show, though they're doing what they can to get that power back. They hate that the old white man doesn't have the strangling grip on society it once had. They hate that minorities and women have rights, though they're doing what they can to change that. They hate open boarders and people who feel more themselves as a member of the opposite sex. They hate what America was on the path of becoming, which was a place that truly welcomed any and all people.
13anti-progress culture war
And anti-science across the board. War on education from elementary school to college. Very unfortunate.
11The fascists don't want to let anyone else alone, though.
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1They were the first cars.
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He's not gonna do shit.
37He'll only do something if he can force some of the production line through a Trump subsidiary so he can get a cut.
14Come down to the Trump™ Pump station and get some gasoline
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He will yell, get media coverage, wait a few days, somehow declare victory and never speak of it again. Its the same playbook can we just ignore him until his court dates?
13He's gonna do a shit on a prison toilet hopefully soon.
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Goes to show, again, that this dipshit has no idea what he's talking about. Detroit automakers have been steadily retrofitting old plants and building new ones to increase EV manufacturing capabilities.
30Might as well add this to the pile of lies.
I’m just going to leave this here. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/he-lied-ohio-voters-struggle-after-trump-promised-jobs
23That's not even consistent with their donor's ideology.
EV's exist to save the auto industry, not the planet.
18True. If you want to save the planet you'll redesign your cities to stop the car dependencies. Allow people to walk, cycle, and use public transportation.
Electric cars is just another ruse for huge car manufacturers to sell more shit to ruin the world slightly slower.
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If we nuke the sun, we don’t have to worry about solar power. It would also combat global warming, which is totally not real. And if we just ban the sale and possession of Lithium, we can get rid of those polluting electric cars. It’s not regulation, it’s for the children.
18I think if we nuke the sun it just gets sunnier
5LEFT WING LIES! The sun will pop because it’s a big balloon and fall into the ocean or fall off the side of the earth where the lizard people live and where Hillary vacations. You can see the chemtrails from her personal ufo that she keeps at Area 51. Elvis keeps his there too.
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I hate everything about this sentence and the very real line of thinking that Republicans use. Because who else uses it besides Republicans?
3Sociopaths? Egomaniacs? Trolls? Misogynists? Child molesters?
Oh wait, same thing 🤪
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How dare people want EVs! This desire for something Trump doesn't like must be quashed!
16The anti-electric / pro-oil propaganda that "conservatives" pass around is really baffling. They have integrated this stuff into their core belief platform. It's nonsense because EVs seem to be a really great option to solve a lot of problems, and you'd think people that complain about gas prices all the time would want to not have to buy gas at all.
All the sense that I can make of it is that Russia is an oil-export economy, and they have been pushing the pro-oil propaganda into the "conservative" thought pipeline for so long that it just became part of their religion.
10It’s performative opposition. No one really thinks there’s some kind of actually intellectually coherent views regarding incandescent bulbs, fuel efficiency, or solar power. It’s a conditioned reaction at this point. Sure, the oil lobby will oppose it, but it’s not like Big Bulb is trying to get rid of smart bulbs.
They’ve been conditioned to respond to the talking point of “the government is trying to tel you what to do” to such an extent that Biden could win the next election if he announced a government initiative to stop people from chaining themselves to rocks and jumping into the nearest lake.
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Free market economy but only in things I like
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From MI here, I love my EV and despise anyone who hates on them.
14What about those of us who think that EVs only prolong the issue, and that better public transportation for everyone isn't just a good idea, but the best idea for personal well-being, as well as climate change?
-9Sure, but while I wait for that to actually exist where I live, are you OK with me driving an EV or should I just not leave the house?
10You should be in favour of EVs. Just large, bus-shaped ones. However private transportation isn’t simply going to vanish. So it’s best to support a transition to EV cars as well
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Seems misguided as appeal to a big chunk of Michigan voters. The car companies are all retooling lines for EVs as demand continues to increase and they don't seem to be turning over tons of employees to do so. For auto industry workers electrification seems to be somewhere on the scale between an lateral move and a boon.
But I'd think it would still play in Alaska and the gulf states where all the oil drilling and refinement happen. Though I also suspect we'll see hydrogen economy jobs ramping in the gulf states since that's where Toyota has most of the US manufacturing.
11Not only are the autos retooling factories to build ev’s they are investing billions in new battery plants. A big part of the UAW negotiations are making sure that future ev’s are made with union labor. EV’s are coming and dipshits like Trump won’t be able to stop it
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What's the ten year forecast for fuel prices again? EV is the future, those not on board will get left behind like those in the 20s who refused to switch from the horse to a automobile.
11Trump is going to prison, he ain't doin' shit.
9Well he won't have to worry about EVs from his prison cell
8Is Elon back from picking fights with Xitter bots yet?
8It's pronounced "shitter"
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Elon sat there with a pet leopard.
7Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters
Why would this persuade Michigan voters? Are Detroit auto-makers forbidden from manufacturing electric vehicles?
7“Progress?! Not on my watch!!!”
5This is the most accurate summation I’ve seen of Mr Oompa Loompa in a long time.
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He seems to have missed doing an entire side of his head with orange makeup.
What a strange strange man.
5At this point, ranting against EVs is the equivalent of your crazy old Uncle ranting about how Satan is possessing your Commodore 64 in the 80s. That's how these people look to me now. Long over-the-hill fuckers with nothing better to do than yell at inevitability.
3i'm more into hydrogen, but EV's tick a lot of boxes (besides lasting for longer than around 12 years, and losing range in extreme weather)
3Fun fact: Cold weather reduces the range of ICE vehicles too. Technically more than Electric vehicles, if you're not using the electric to heat the vehicle as well: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/fuel-economy-cold-weather
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He has to have polling saying this is a winning message, since he has repeated it a few times and it's an actual policy proposal.
But dang this doesn't FEEL like a winning message. The federal government is giving billions to major Michigan manufacturing facilities and he's...against it?
3Probably a winning issue with petroleum mogul donors. He’s trying to fish for money.
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I feel like I should have something intelligent to say here, but this is so stupid that it's pulling any cogent thoughts out of my head. Like how drinking distilled water pulls all the electrolytes out of you.
2Can we push some EVs off a cliff onto his head?
And then build functional public transit for everyone.
2Trump as actually a fantastic barometer for where people should focus their values, efforts, and societal goals! Just take the exact opposite of anything this dumb motherfucker says and you’ve got something worth looking at!
2It's pretty cool that the President of the United Auto Workers is named Shawn Fain
2Chevy ar la?
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sometimes I wonder how hot it has to get before anyone changes their mind on climate change. We'll check back in at the next record breaking heatwaves.
1sometimes I wonder how hot it has to get before anyone changes their mind on climate change.
If conservatives' response to covid is any indication, they are willing to literally die first.
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There's an EV push?
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He’s absolutely despicable in every way. This criminal traitor is going to prison.
1Trump vows to do lots of stupid things. At this point this one barely even moves the needle.
1The madness is coming from you, Ronaldo Rump. Must you attach hysteria and hyperbole to everything? Even a goddamned windmill is cause for high drama with you.
1This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan.
With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.
“The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’ goes into effect,” he wrote in the Truth Social post.
Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.
The call-outs come as about 146,000 UAW members near a strike deadline when their contract ends Sept. 14 with three large U.S. automakers — General Motors, Stellantis and Ford.
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1Vote for donnie to stall anything being done about climate change and help him get revenge on his own personal and political enemies.
Where can we sign up?
0Remember nothing is going to change after all this. It's America and American systems and communities that are fucked, not just trump.
There won't be greener grass on the other side. It's all the same old bullshit.
-5I thought the same before Trump was elected. I thought to myself, it won't be good but it won't be worse, and boy was I proven wrong.
There are deep systemic flaws in America that are not being addressed. I'm sure you see them too. But things got worse under Trump, just look at the steps backwards in environmental protection, trans rights and women's rights. To say it doesn't matter is ignoring the harm done to many communities.
It's okay to want a better candidate, but to paint both sides as no different is reckless and petulant.
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