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[-] FMT99@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

It might not work eh? Might it though? I hate this kind of weasel headline almost as much as the constant "slamming". Just say what you're going to say.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

It'll work just like adding another lane will solve traffic.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

"We're pushing the can down the road. Problem is, we're running out of road."

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago

The Biden Administration wants to hurt Mexico in order to protect American Automotive interests.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago

The US has done a great job of fucking Canada, now they're turning their attention to fucking Mexico, too.

It's giving Sino-Soviet split.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah I hate American pharmaceutical companies so much trying to pry Pharmacare from the hands of everyday people.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

Not that I doubt it, but what did the US do to Canada?

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

We've had logging tariffs on them for a bit, especially at the start of the pandemic when lumber prices were insane and getting rid of them would've helped lower prices a bit.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

Illegal tariffs. The Canadian lumber industry has taken them to court several times and win the cases. And nothing was changed. The US loves NAFTA when it benefits them. Not so much otherwise.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

Exactly. The US decides when it wants to follow the rules it created.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 15 points 5 months ago

"Joe Biden wants to stop the bleeding in his poll numbers in Michigan" would be a better headline.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Big 3 had a decade to compete with Tesla whose cars are already considered lower grade by today's EV standards because of quality issues.

Instead they spammed anti direct sell litigation while R&D twiddled their thumbs.

They'll do the exact same thing again and eat some more bailouts after they inevitably fail again.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Buy EVs time or protect american oil?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

You must buy iphone, borger, and ford f-150 or the american economy will collapse. /s

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

protect the us militarys ability to force car manufacturers to make tanks/drones during wartime.

[-] bquintb@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago

Also, it might work. No one knows, this is news.

[-] Ohi@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

For an administration so desperate to cut back on global emissions, keeping cheap and apparently reliable foreign electric vehicles out of US market seems so backwards.

[-] Psiczar@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

While I’m sure there are financial motives behind this that are backed by the US car industry, it also makes sense if you anticipate a war with China sometime in the future. You don’t really want a large proportion of your population driving cars manufactured by the enemy that can be switched off remotely.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

We shouldn’t be preparing for war with a rising world power, we should be trying to achieve partnership.

But as Americans say: China bad, the slavery in MY prison system is justified.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

We shouldn’t be preparing for war with a rising world power, we should be trying to achieve partnership.

Historically that has been a very grave error.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

That's not the worry. The worry is that China is accumulating all of this industrial capacity (like the US pre-WW2) and that car factories really aren't that different from APC/tank factories.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

switched off? how about flooring it into valuable targets? seizing up the freeways? locking up certain passengers?

[-] Psiczar@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Sure, I went for the economic impact option, but causing chaos is certainly another way they could go.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

These vehicles can do much more. They usually have cameras (some are even required by law). Most of them are always connected to the internet, they could intercept and disturb communications.

This is true for most modern cars.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

US companies internationally will still struggle though. Might even make the US car market even more of a galapagos.

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