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1 year agoFuck off. Your inconvenience is not worth more than their livelihoods.
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Counterexample: police unions
10·1 year agoThink of all the profits you’re delivering to shareholders!
Isn’t it also an indication that the current government is unwilling to compromise? It’s not like the government not controlling the house is a new issue, but the lack of progress as a result of it seems to indicate that neither side is willing to make progress towards a shared middle ground.
You realize how much money is going towards EV subsidies? They’re extremely inefficient uses of money.
The government is limited in monetary policy by inflation.
Of course, the Petrodollar doesn’t really have this problem, but it ends up exporting inflation around the world.
New EVs in China are going for 10k, so it’s clearly possible…
Stopping climate change by…
Removing fossil fuels from the grid? Reducing methane leakage in natural gas transmission? Developing domestic nuclear energy?
Maybe reducing car-dependency to make more efficient use of land and reduce the excessive amounts of taxpayer money being dumped to subsidize suburban development? Reducing inefficient flights between close cities (LAX-SFO, BOS-JFK-DCA)? Building more efficient buildings?
How about taking advantage of the already insanely efficient supply chains in China that allow for the development of sub-10k EVs? Helping those companies launch in the US and bring their expertise with them to accelerate the EV transition like China has?
Nah, let’s just give some more money to a few big EV manufacturers, I’m sure that’ll fix everything.
Loans are costs too. It’s tying up capital that could be used elsewhere
Taiwan literally had a government intervention to launch TSMCcand developed their university system around TSMC being the crown jewel of employment, while the US has had dysfunctional support for anything STEM that succeeds in spite of itself.
Why would you believe this? The talent is specialized and most of them are already employed by the few dominant market players.
Fuck that. Requiring trains to be built in the US will blow up the already obscene budget even more and lead to poor-quality trains due to a lack of experience in high speed trainset manufacturing.
We saw this in Boston, where the requirement of US-made led to absolutely fucked supply chains, constant delays and cost overruns, and shoddily constructed trains with a multitude of problems (though, admittedly, the entire Boston transit system has these problems anyway so I guess it’s just another part of government dysfunction). For what? For a voting bloc of like a thousand temporary workers?
Thing is, the US doesn’t really have high speed rail in the pipeline that can share technical expertise. The proposed Texas line is planning to use Shinkansen trains, Brightline already has a supplier, and so does Amtrak. Where are you going to get economies of scale to come into play?
It’s also a fucking California state project, and California is the safest blue state that ever blued.
If you’re too lazy to click the source, that’s a you problem mate.
It’s literally in the article
China did to EVs what the US did to semiconductors.
The US and EU markets lack competition.
The justice system isn’t perfect and you can’t roll back dying
That’s literally the role of the government, though.
US politics is basically neither side compromising on the basis of ideology and saying it’s the other side’s fault.
That’s a far more condemnable position when you’re the actual government than when you’re the opposition.