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Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Lol without all the subsidies gas would be $12/gallon. And burning fossil fuels (40% is automotive) kills more than 250,000 Americans per year. Whats the cost of a human life brah?

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think they're more commenting on how the supposedly "free market" champions constantly interfere with the market when it suits their agenda

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Exactly. Those people tend to be extreme hypocrites.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah but in this case (EVs) it’s way better for public health and the “interference” is still a fraction of the scales tilted in fossil fuels favor.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whats the cost of a human life brah?

That depends on if grandma is being evaluated by an Obama Death Panel (life is precious and invaluable) or by the stock market in 2020 (she has, what, a couple years left anyway, let her die).

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

In the US there is only one metric: Dow Jones death panel. The insanity of our culture is that Obama Death Panels were an invention of the Dow Jones death panel board to rally the lemming brained right against the concept of public healthcare (the horror!). Oh yeah, obligatory fuck Joe Lieberman.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that's the point. These politicians interfere and meddle and cry "free market" when it is convenient for them.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Would have been far easier to just type “there is no free market”

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Exactly I am not getting all this subsidy unfairness nonsense that stops Chinese firms from selling cars here. The only difference I'm seeing is that we're subsidizing cars on the back end through oil subsidies, and they are subsidizing cars on the front end with production subsidies.