President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports in his first day in office does not exempt crude oil from the trade penalties, two sources familiar with the plan told Reuters on Tuesday. (Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Chris Reese)
On the bright side, 99% of Canadians will be immediately priced out of driving a ICE car, so at least we won’t have to worry about that anymore
No, that kinda fucks over most of us who are just getting by. If someone can’t afford to buy gas how would they be able to afford an EV? We need the prices to drop to a level everyone wants to buy an EV, not make every option cripplingly expensive.
It also sucks for people who don’t want to buy a rolling surveillance machine.
As much as I like electric I’d rather take an old car I can fix myself and get parts for that has a radio. No fucking way am I driving a data mining machine. I also plan to bike alot when I loose weight to ride so that won’t be much of a problem.
There are electric conversion kits for certain cars.
Riding a bike is a great way to lose weight, so no time like the present!
sadly iv’e yet to find a bike that can handle my weight without the tires bottoming out, i also need to work on my cardio as i am getting quite out of breath easily from any heavy exertion. Ive been to the cardiologist and he said my heart is fine other than possible bicuspid aortic valve so im not sure what is causing it other than being lazy for too long.
What about those fat wheel bikes? They’re more comfortable too. Not great for commuting, but fun to ride around.
Yeah that’s the only thing i haven’t tried yet, but they are quite pricey. Ill have to see if i can save up for something like that.
Why is that? We would be able to import the US parts needed to build cars domestically as we do today. The tariffs would affect domestic production going back to the States. Even if Canadian autos go belly up because they can’t export to the States, we’d still be able to import US-made vehicles. What am I missing?
Pretty much every car built anywhere in North America has parts from at least 2 of the 3 countries, not to mention China. Sometimes parts end up going across the border multiple times before they end up as a fully assembled car.