Old man yells at sky
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Old man urges investment in horses, buggys, and oats.
I don't know, all those liberal coffee shops are selling oat milk. Can't the horses eat something more Republican like corn?
Literally. He really should be mad at climate change for fueling the need for EVs.
But then that’s admitting that climate change exists, and then it’s a slippery slope to saying he was trying to start an insurrection and coup, and that’s a big no-no for Dolan Trumpet.
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Gas would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky pollution.
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Only the fucking Republicans would end up against innovation.
The anti-progress culture war bullshit is overdone and tired. Give it a rest and let everyone else move on without you.
anti-progress culture war
And anti-science across the board. War on education from elementary school to college. Very unfortunate.
Republicans hate change. They hate that they no longer run the show, though they're doing what they can to get that power back. They hate that the old white man doesn't have the strangling grip on society it once had. They hate that minorities and women have rights, though they're doing what they can to change that. They hate open boarders and people who feel more themselves as a member of the opposite sex. They hate what America was on the path of becoming, which was a place that truly welcomed any and all people.
The fascists don't want to let anyone else alone, though.
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He's not gonna do shit.
He'll only do something if he can force some of the production line through a Trump subsidiary so he can get a cut.
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He will yell, get media coverage, wait a few days, somehow declare victory and never speak of it again. Its the same playbook can we just ignore him until his court dates?
He's gonna do a shit on a prison toilet hopefully soon.
Goes to show, again, that this dipshit has no idea what he's talking about. Detroit automakers have been steadily retrofitting old plants and building new ones to increase EV manufacturing capabilities.
Might as well add this to the pile of lies.
I’m just going to leave this here. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/he-lied-ohio-voters-struggle-after-trump-promised-jobs
If we nuke the sun, we don’t have to worry about solar power. It would also combat global warming, which is totally not real. And if we just ban the sale and possession of Lithium, we can get rid of those polluting electric cars. It’s not regulation, it’s for the children.
I think if we nuke the sun it just gets sunnier
LEFT WING LIES! The sun will pop because it’s a big balloon and fall into the ocean or fall off the side of the earth where the lizard people live and where Hillary vacations. You can see the chemtrails from her personal ufo that she keeps at Area 51. Elvis keeps his there too.
I hate everything about this sentence and the very real line of thinking that Republicans use. Because who else uses it besides Republicans?
Sociopaths? Egomaniacs? Trolls? Misogynists? Child molesters?
Oh wait, same thing 🤪
That's not even consistent with their donor's ideology.
EV's exist to save the auto industry, not the planet.
True. If you want to save the planet you'll redesign your cities to stop the car dependencies. Allow people to walk, cycle, and use public transportation.
Electric cars is just another ruse for huge car manufacturers to sell more shit to ruin the world slightly slower.
How dare people want EVs! This desire for something Trump doesn't like must be quashed!
The anti-electric / pro-oil propaganda that "conservatives" pass around is really baffling. They have integrated this stuff into their core belief platform. It's nonsense because EVs seem to be a really great option to solve a lot of problems, and you'd think people that complain about gas prices all the time would want to not have to buy gas at all.
All the sense that I can make of it is that Russia is an oil-export economy, and they have been pushing the pro-oil propaganda into the "conservative" thought pipeline for so long that it just became part of their religion.
It’s performative opposition. No one really thinks there’s some kind of actually intellectually coherent views regarding incandescent bulbs, fuel efficiency, or solar power. It’s a conditioned reaction at this point. Sure, the oil lobby will oppose it, but it’s not like Big Bulb is trying to get rid of smart bulbs.
They’ve been conditioned to respond to the talking point of “the government is trying to tel you what to do” to such an extent that Biden could win the next election if he announced a government initiative to stop people from chaining themselves to rocks and jumping into the nearest lake.
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What's the ten year forecast for fuel prices again? EV is the future, those not on board will get left behind like those in the 20s who refused to switch from the horse to a automobile.
Seems misguided as appeal to a big chunk of Michigan voters. The car companies are all retooling lines for EVs as demand continues to increase and they don't seem to be turning over tons of employees to do so. For auto industry workers electrification seems to be somewhere on the scale between an lateral move and a boon.
But I'd think it would still play in Alaska and the gulf states where all the oil drilling and refinement happen. Though I also suspect we'll see hydrogen economy jobs ramping in the gulf states since that's where Toyota has most of the US manufacturing.
Not only are the autos retooling factories to build ev’s they are investing billions in new battery plants. A big part of the UAW negotiations are making sure that future ev’s are made with union labor. EV’s are coming and dipshits like Trump won’t be able to stop it
Trump is going to prison, he ain't doin' shit.
Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters
Why would this persuade Michigan voters? Are Detroit auto-makers forbidden from manufacturing electric vehicles?
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Well he won't have to worry about EVs from his prison cell
Elon sat there with a pet leopard.
He seems to have missed doing an entire side of his head with orange makeup.
What a strange strange man.
At this point, ranting against EVs is the equivalent of your crazy old Uncle ranting about how Satan is possessing your Commodore 64 in the 80s. That's how these people look to me now. Long over-the-hill fuckers with nothing better to do than yell at inevitability.
i'm more into hydrogen, but EV's tick a lot of boxes (besides lasting for longer than around 12 years, and losing range in extreme weather)
Fun fact: Cold weather reduces the range of ICE vehicles too. Technically more than Electric vehicles, if you're not using the electric to heat the vehicle as well: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/fuel-economy-cold-weather
You need to heat up the ev somehow. There’s some waste heat generated by the motors, but you’re still having to preheat off the battery. And it’s more emerge effecient to keep the main battery warm than it is to cold discharge anyhow
Otherwise your windows fog up.
That's all true, but you can pre-heat your vehicle before you set off while it's still plugged in. Even a basic Nissan leaf lets you do that. Either way, even accounting for all that people don't seem to realise that ICE's lose efficiency in cold weather as well and it's not a small amount.
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He has to have polling saying this is a winning message, since he has repeated it a few times and it's an actual policy proposal.
But dang this doesn't FEEL like a winning message. The federal government is giving billions to major Michigan manufacturing facilities and he's...against it?
Probably a winning issue with petroleum mogul donors. He’s trying to fish for money.
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