I use protectionism as a huge talking point so much.
“We like to claim we’re all about free market, but the US is a very protectionist country and even then only to capital, the idea of protectionism for workers like affordable college or stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas is seen as profane but workers are not allowed to outsource where they consume.
Real talk, I'm strongly considering buying a used EV on the cheap. Trying to suss out which platforms are the likeliest to have a longer lifespan. I think circa 2019 Bolts are in my sweet spot of affordability and best chance of holding up longer term. I'd love to find one with 20-40k miles on it.
Imagine the horror of having a safe, affordable, and environmentally friendly way to traverse our countries hellscape of freeways. Nope, you are gonna want a powerstroke diesel 6-wheeled truck with king cab and automatic trailer parking. you might need to tow something one day after all.
The only issue is that American mechanics apparently overreacting on those scanner things and don't actually know how to fix electric vehicles that don't use our same blueprints.
USA finding out that for as much as it used capitalism to advance the USA's interests capitalism was using the USA to advance capitalism's interests just a little bit more.
If this reaches some arbitrary threshold of manufacturing above that which US capital is comfortable with they will begin restricting and rewriting what “free trade” means
All the free trade propaganda stems from a time when imperialist powers depended on it to steamroll native industries in the periphery. Of course, it was associated with all the liberty freedom democracy propaganda, so once it no longer became preferable and even enabled the possibility of the reverse happening, they have to materially oppose it, but still wax poetic about it to please their bootlickers and sycophants.
I never looked into it... but now I'm wondering if there are POV style vehicles that you legally aren't allowed to get registered at the DMV?
Could there be a federal regulation or 50 states worth of state regulation that prohibits the import, sale, and registration of certain makes/models of vehicles?
This is the likely outcome. China would still make most of the parts, and they'll be assembled in Mexico. It's going to destroy US and Canada auto manufacturing.
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I live in Canada, and the writing is on the wall. Our entire economy relies on housing market go up. Canada is going to be 'third world' in 20 years. Pockets of good services surrounded by utter poverty....
I had brown outs this weekend. I live in a population center.
God I hope this turns into a BYD dealership in Hermosillo and not a pipeline directly into the US skipping all the people that actually live in Mexico.
Good point, I just assumed because I never see them around. I looked it up and there is a new BYD store on the west side where I don't really ever go. I've only really seen an EV only once or twice so It is probably easy to be the market leader of a really tiny market.