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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months ago no one will want to buy them because they’ll be too expensive China makes cheap electric vehicles. Why can’t American shoppers buy them? Its almost as though the import price of the vehicle is a consequence of US trade policy.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI was not saying he is correct, saying that was his likely meaning in this context. He’s not exactly got a great track record of being smart or correct. Just in this case he didn’t seem to mean a ban outright.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoHe explicitly called for a ban of EV imports from Mexico. What’s more outright than that?
China makes cheap electric vehicles. Why can’t American shoppers buy them?
Its almost as though the import price of the vehicle is a consequence of US trade policy.
I was not saying he is correct, saying that was his likely meaning in this context. He’s not exactly got a great track record of being smart or correct. Just in this case he didn’t seem to mean a ban outright.
He explicitly called for a ban of EV imports from Mexico. What’s more outright than that?