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Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

I wonder if his tariffs will come with blackjack and hookers...

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Regret's avatar

I don't think making renewable energy imports more expensive is going to help with installing the maximum amount of renewable energy. and uhm, our biosphere is heating up at an alarming rate, just as predicted by the climate scientists. So maybe the USA could accept that global trade screwing over local production capacity can go both ways and just suck it up just like all those other countries sucked it up and started producing stuff for the global market? If the USA really wants to do something about global trade harming the diversity of local production, then they could kill the big trade deals that allow corporations to sue governments.

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Teddy Barnes's avatar

There is a BYD dealership about 5km from my house on the beach at Cha am Thailand. I'll be buying my wife one in a month or so......great little cars. We have solar on the house (made in China) specifically to charge the car, then switch over to the house.

WTF is wrong with people who won't take advantage of the things that are readily available? China is ruled by a bunch of asshats, but the people are just the same as any other country.......just trying to get by and live their best life.

Trumpelforeskins tariffs are a fucking disaster for everyday 'Murikans........

And 'Murikan auto makers need to remember that competition begets innovation.......which begets better, cheaper, products for the masses (you know........the folks that buy your shit..........)

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zb23's avatar

his american bloodbath speech was mainly about how he wants every single car not made in the US to cost twice as much. for some reason his followers think this is a good idea. (it is not.)

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Let us giggle and point at the former presnit and current Kooky Pants for his inability to comprehend the subtleties of Tariffs. With not even a brainworm to blame...

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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

Chinese companies have been focusing on producing EVs. Chinese consumers--and consumers in countries where Chinese companies export their cars--are buying EVs. If America wants American companies to produces EVs, then American companies should start producing EVs.

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Void's avatar

They do produce EVs. Quite a few.

Unfortunately for a lot of us an EV is difficult. If you’re an apartment dweller where do you charge?

If you regularly drive 300+ miles a hybrid is better.

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Ari Chase-Ramos's avatar

If you don’t want an EV, don’t drive an EV. Biden’s premise, however, is that the U.S. companies MUST produce a lot more EVs that they currently do and that Americans must drive more than they do now. But if, as you say, it is hard to drive an EV because there isn’t much charging available, then the “problem” isn’t that China is producing EVs. Slapping on tariffs won’t make the apartments or the stores put more charging stations up.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. Why am I learning to drive at my advanced age? First, I'm no longer strictly urban; we split our week between the pied-à-terre in the east village and the pied-à-nuage in Undisclosed Location upstate. UL is very, very rural. To live up there I must be able to drive. Second, the electric cars I've been yearning for since childhood are becoming a reality. I have a deep, abiding loathing of infernal combustion engines.

Soon come.

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Pexas Teat's avatar

I just sold my 18 year old Honda to someone in a very similar situation to yours. I replaced the Honda with an EV, and because I live in a rural area and have a regrettably long commute, I now drive the EV a lot of miles. We need to be shifting the people who use the most fuel straight to EVs, and fast.

The couple who bought the Honda live in NYC and don't need a car but half the year, and won't drive but maybe 1,000 miles a year. That's not so terrible compared to people who drive a lot.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I've had over 40 cars in my life, for many years I'd buy one for like $400 and drive it for six months. Then in 1997 I bought an F350 new, and drove it for over 20 years, never had a problem. We bought a Mustang in 1999, same deal. In 2021 we bought a Cadillac, so far so good. It's my opinion that most problems people have with domestic cars are due to lack of proper maintenance. I will never buy a foreign car. My next car will be electric.

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John Lindhe's avatar

I like the 'thinking' here. We have to raise tariffs because the Chinese government is subsidizing the EV cars. At the same time, the US passes legislation to subsidize US EV cars.

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Regret's avatar

outsubsidizing US EV cars would be a better fix than taxing Chinese EV cars more. The first leads to more EV cars, which might help save the planet.

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Mexfiles's avatar

I'm wondering, given the USMCA regulations (aka NAFTA 2.0) whether this will have any effect on the Mexican built "Chinese" EVs...

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Orange Turd's tariffs were not all bad. The boards and chassis etc for the systems I design are made in Vietnam where my competitions' are made in China. Orange Turd didn't add tariffs to Vietnamese imports so our sales folks suddenly had several extra points of margin they could use in pricing fights with our competition.

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BlueStateLibel's avatar

I'm not really thrilled with this. At a time when people wanted reliable compact cars, Toyoto and Honda supplied them. Detroit kept making boats. I really just feel they're going to do the same now. Instead of making affordable EVs, we're going to get $70K SUVs the size of your living room.

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CzechJournalists's avatar

I saw one of those EV Hummers in San Antonio. I was having my normal reaction to seeing any Hummer, before I noticed what it was.

Then I got even more pissed off because I figured it was still probably still better for the environment then me driving around in my old RAV4

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

he just has to one up doesn't he - he can't give a specific plan, he just wants to brag and say his number is bigger. its' so transparently pathetic, but his idiots eat it up

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Someone needs to come out with a Trash Panda to compete with the Seagull.

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Lumpy Tapioca's avatar

We'll soon have the small, no frills, efficient cars that Americans need.

They'll start at $50,000 and last maybe 5 years.

Lobbyists got the gov to mandate backup cams and lane following and black box recorders and

whatever other delicate and impossible to repair doohickies to jack profits.

And if you want the features to work past the first six months, you'll pay a subscription.

I'm an old, but my first car was a $400 1967 Beetle. I took it everywhere.

Then came a $1100 Karmann Ghia in this beautiful shade of blue. Far beyond adequate.

Now, I hear that some VW is $85,000, but "it's a lot of car for the money". Ok.

And don't get me started on those clouds and kids on my grass.

(speaking of, weed was $10, maybe $15 an ounce, windowpane a buck a hit

and one of those was more than enough)

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