The recent surge in fuel prices due to the war in Iran has spurred demand for electric vehicles around the world, and Chinese car makers are making the most of the opportunity.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    So glad that Biden decided that protecting Elon Musk’s financial interests was more important than Americans having affordable electric cars.

    Every centrist who rails against tariffs but makes excuses for Biden’s protectionism is a massive hypocrite.

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      13 hours ago

      That’s what tariffs are for. There is no contradiction and no hypocrisy.

      Nobody is against tariffs as a concept, every country protects some industry that is deemed critical (like agriculture) with tariffs and trade barriers. What people complain about are wholesale, generalized tariffs on everything from everywhere based on a ChatGPT suggestion.

      Protecting a key industry like electric car manufacturing using tariffs is fine, using tariffs for everything because you just learned the word, is not.

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        5 hours ago

        Protecting a key industry like electric car manufacturing using tariffs is fine

        We can’t have affordable electric cars because Biden wanted to protect Elon’s profits.

        That’s fine by you.