• @[email protected]
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    736 months ago

    The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose. Nobody has to lose their jobs.

    • @skyspydude1
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      616 months ago

      As an American auto worker, I like our move to EVs and the jobs at the massive new factories we built. But I guess wanting blue collar workers learning new skills and technologies makes me a gay communist.

        • @surewhynotlem
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          436 months ago

          All communists are gay trans fairy men who love satan and hate guns. Didn’t you get the pamphlet?

        • @skyspydude1
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          196 months ago

          Because nonsensical insults are their bread and butter, and just being a communist isn’t good enough anymore.

          • @grue
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            196 months ago

            just being a communist isn’t good enough anymore.

            Especially since they love Russia now (because it’s fascist), but the distinction between the communist USSR and the fascist Russian Federation confuses a lot of their base.

    • @[email protected]
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      126 months ago

      Tesla is an American company. The ‘traditional’ American auto companies like GM and Ford don’t even build or source a lot of their parts in the US and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep has been owned by a European company for quite a while now. This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.

      • Billiam
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        116 months ago

        This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.

        It’s no wonder. He’s a Republican, so that automatically makes him a assbag. Also, Toyota has a Camry manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ford assembles Escapes in Louisville, and of course GM makes Corvettes in Bowling Green, so it’s no surprise that he’d be regressive towards automotive tech (even though Ford and SK are spending like $4 billion to build two battery manufactuing plants outside Louisville).

    • @AA5B
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      106 months ago

      Maybe someone should create EV incentives, with a requirement to be manufactured in country - both incentive to buy and incentive to manufacturers to invest in guaranteed growth area, and for their own future. Oops, that’s what we already have

    • @[email protected]
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      06 months ago

      They already do: Ford has the Mach-E & F-150 Lightning plus a bunch of PHEVs, GM has (had) the Bolt, Stellantis makes a few PHEVs among which one of the the very few cars on the market that can carry 7 passengers on battery power (the Chrysler Pacifica) altough that one is made in Canada, not the US.

      Oh, and all of Tesla.

    • @[email protected]
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      -116 months ago

      The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose.

      I find that very hard to believe.

      • @FangedWyvern42
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        36 months ago

        A lot of manufacturers are. They just aren’t making as many EVs as they are ICE.