Can we push some EVs off a cliff onto his head?
And then build functional public transit for everyone.
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The madness is coming from you, Ronaldo Rump. Must you attach hysteria and hyperbole to everything? Even a goddamned windmill is cause for high drama with you.
He has to have polling saying this is a winning message, since he has repeated it a few times and it's an actual policy proposal.
But dang this doesn't FEEL like a winning message. The federal government is giving billions to major Michigan manufacturing facilities and he's...against it?
getting his base not to take Covid precautions or vote by mail wasn’t a winning message, so let’s not put too much thought into their motives.
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Trump as actually a fantastic barometer for where people should focus their values, efforts, and societal goals! Just take the exact opposite of anything this dumb motherfucker says and you’ve got something worth looking at!
sometimes I wonder how hot it has to get before anyone changes their mind on climate change. We'll check back in at the next record breaking heatwaves.
There are people out there that I am convinced will take their mental gymnastics with them to the grave. Maybe they'd start to think they might have been a teensy tiny bit off, but only after they've already drowned in a massive flood, or collapsed to heat stroke under a broiling sun in a formerly very temperate region.
Just the same, there's probably plenty of unvaccinated people who died to covid some time during the peak years of the pandemic, who, were it possible, would have wanted to argue with the mortician that their autopsy was wrong and they had obviously died to something else.
Edit: Wait, morticians are the funeral people. I meant whoever does the autopsy.
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I feel like I should have something intelligent to say here, but this is so stupid that it's pulling any cogent thoughts out of my head. Like how drinking distilled water pulls all the electrolytes out of you.
He’s absolutely despicable in every way. This criminal traitor is going to prison.
i'm more into hydrogen, but EV's tick a lot of boxes (besides lasting for longer than around 12 years, and losing range in extreme weather)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Former President Trump is vowing to end the “madness” of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles — a likely appeal to voters in the swing state of Michigan.
With this opposition to electric vehicles, Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters to support him over Biden, who carried the swing state in 2020.
“The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’ goes into effect,” he wrote in the Truth Social post.
Last week, the Energy Department announced plans to invest $12 billion into converting auto manufacturing facilities into plants for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Trump also took aim at Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, for supporting the Biden administration’s latest investment into electric vehicles.
The call-outs come as about 146,000 UAW members near a strike deadline when their contract ends Sept. 14 with three large U.S. automakers — General Motors, Stellantis and Ford.
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Trump vows to do lots of stupid things. At this point this one barely even moves the needle.
There's an EV push?
Mainly two components of the push.
One is a lot of government money to ev charging operators, to break the chicken and egg problem of not enough chargers to inspire confidence to buy an EV, and not enough evs to justify building out chargers. I'm somewhat onboard here.
Then there's the ev vehicle tax credit, which currently means a tax credit for people that can afford a 60k car. To their credit, they tried to cap it at 55k, which is still high, but at least not unlimited, but left a loophole that SUVs can be 80k. So of course almost every ev ends up being a suv. For a short while they said "you call it an suv, but they are really just hatchbacks" but the automakers won.
So it's currently a tax credit for the wealthier, which is a bit frustrating. I understand the goal and broadly agree, but not totally happy that it's a tax break for the wealthyish. Income limit was a good start, but really need to be pushing the automakers to build on low end more.
Vote for donnie to stall anything being done about climate change and help him get revenge on his own personal and political enemies.
Where can we sign up?
Remember nothing is going to change after all this. It's America and American systems and communities that are fucked, not just trump.
There won't be greener grass on the other side. It's all the same old bullshit.
I thought the same before Trump was elected. I thought to myself, it won't be good but it won't be worse, and boy was I proven wrong.
There are deep systemic flaws in America that are not being addressed. I'm sure you see them too. But things got worse under Trump, just look at the steps backwards in environmental protection, trans rights and women's rights. To say it doesn't matter is ignoring the harm done to many communities.
It's okay to want a better candidate, but to paint both sides as no different is reckless and petulant.