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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Of course not.

Just like Cash for Clunkers only lined the pockets of auto manufacturers.

You can't make more of something and somehow reduce energy and materials consumption.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Was it supposed to? The government isn't a company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Exactly so they shouldn’t have bailed anyone out in the first place.

[–] PunnyName 0 points 5 months ago

Um. Always has been [a business].

[–] ChowJeeBai 13 points 5 months ago

Also gm: we can't compete with china! U gives us subsidies and tariffs!

[–] homesweethomeMrL 12 points 5 months ago

Who killed the electric car?

Oh. Oh, right.

[–] 3volver 9 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile Biden put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs entering the US. No wonder the US is losing to China.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's a Hip-Hop joke in reference to Kendrick Lamar saying "fuck the big three, it's just big me" and starting the feud with Drake earlier this year.

[–] workerONE 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

EV motors are simple and cheap to develop. The cost is in designing new cars, but the motors are cheap to develop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The auto industry is a racket