Old man yells at cars.
Trump vows to do lots of dumb things.
And most of them are even less newsworthy than this one. I wish media learned in 2016 to stop feeding the outrage machine and giving this clown any PR.
It’s not a network learning problem, it’s a network incentive problem. Trump on the campaign trail gets clicks and eyeballs, Trump in office does the same. His administration, justifiably, kept the wholeworld focused on US political news as he kept saying/doing wild and idiotic/entertaining things. Doesn’t matter if it was bigotry or insanity. It got and kept people talking, hell him saying insane things promoted more air time of people talking about how insane a thing is. Some may say there is no such thing as bad coverage, but who believe this the most is people monetizing the coverage. Trump makes news, so of course news coverage will follow the smoke to a dumpster fire.
At no point in this equation is the health of democracy considered. Every outlet will shrug and say “not my problem” to continue making money off Trump coverage. And frankly, how are they wrong to do so? Relying on the goodwill of CEOs and shareholders is always a recipe for dissapointment.
This whole situation is a self powered ouroboros of profits>people. The only solution is to just kill the goddamn snake but there is no easy way to remove profits from news without out mass cries of communism.
Michigan would love to make EVs. I’d go so far as to say the workers don’t care what kind of cars they build as long as they’re getting paid. I don’t think he’s going to get much traction here with this.
Yes, the madness of getting off our dependence of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. Who wouldn’t want to continue that shitshow? /s
Not just that, but if he’d kill EV industry in the US the country would quickly get flooded by Chinese cars and batteries.
Yes we finally have at least 2 EV manufacturers that are building cars in America. Killing that would be the most un-American thing you could do. Fucking traitor.
chinese battery manufacturing capacity and ability far outstrips america any way you look at it. check out CATL
Those folks pretend they’re his best friends. He’s oblivious to them laughing at him.
To the down voters: the significance is Trumps words quickly become GOP dogma. With the steady drift right of the CEO of the worlds best known electric car maker this sets up a(nother) paradox for the right
Teslas are gonna have to include smoke canisters to give you that rolling coal feel in a post ICE world
Or playing cards against the tyres?
Does he think american car manufacturers can’t make EVs?
Not at a profit the likes of gas
Neat thing, most oil companies are buying lithium mines to stay ahead. In a few more decades most major oil companies will have transitioned to lithium mining and end user electrical distribution.
Absolute twat yet some lap up his words and fall to lick his boots.
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I mean, I do not know if EVs are as bad to the environment as regular gasoline-powered vehicles, but I do know that they won’t fix the problem of the environmental devastation caused by car culture since they still run on energy made from gas and coal plants and they are still as inefficient in transporting people as regular vehicles.
I know that it will be very difficult to substitute cars for public transit. Actually, public transit will never fully substitute cars since there will always be places that are too far away for trains, trolleys, and other forms of public transit to reach. Also, ambulances, police cars, and firefighter trucks should never be substituted by public transit, since they need speed and versatility more than anything. But for most people, public transit could be insanely attractive if enough investment was put into it. Most people go through the same few paths every day, and even then, they almost always go at the same time every day.
I suggest that cities go substituting cars for public transit in small batches by building infrastructure and changing urban development laws in key places and then expanding to the rest of the city.
edit: Oh, and by the way, here in Brazil EVs are literally just dumb. Although Brazil is mostly run by clean hydrelectric energy, which would be very nice for EV development, we also have lots of sugarcane farms producing sugar and ethanol. Ethanol is widely used here as a biofuel, and there is a dynamic between sugar prices and ethanol prices, where low sugar prices make ethanol a more lucrative business, thus making the agribusiness produce more ethanol, and vice-versa. So, if we just put lots of taxes on sugar and make it less profitable, or we subsidize ethanol, we could make people use ethanol instead of gasoline, and then we would have a near carbon neutral fleet of cars without having to transition to electric.
(public transit is still better, though)
An EV using energy produced even from coal is way more efficient than the most efficient ICE engine burning gasoline. Like, not even a contest.
Where did you get that information? I just searched it online and the first results say about 33% efficiency for coal plants and between 25% and 30% for gasoline engines.
I’ll edit my coment in a few minutes with the links to my sources.
edit: those efficiencies are energy efficiencies, completely unrelated to emmissions. I did not find any sources for emmissions efficiencies, but I’d guess knowing the energy efficiencies that coal is worse for the environment than gasoline.
edit 2: Coal power plant efficiency: https://www.pcienergysolutions.com/2023/04/17/power-plant-efficiency-coal-natural-gas-nuclear-and-more/
gasoline ICE efficiency:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml
here it says that the engine losses go from 64% minimum on roads to 75% maximum on cities.
