It’s ironic that a guy who hates “chy-nah” so much and wants to “drill”, has likely done more to push Chinese cars worldwide, and EV’s than any other president in history.
Whilst quality of life has dropped, he’s also done an amazing job in pushing the AUD upwards vs USD too
However the real transformation we gotta do is to move to more public transportation (which can also be electrified) but these budgets are all gone under Trump.
If this continues and people are forced out of their normal single occupant, drive to where they could have walked in 5min habits, I wouldn’t be surprised to see other options pop up. Except not public, but privately owned by one of a dozen billionaires. And you can’t pay by the ride, it’s a monthly subscription to use it. And only white people can sit up front.
I think this idea was floated and partially implemented by Uber already.
People need to realize that it doesn’t need to be profitable. Public transportation is a service with many beneficial side effects and efficiencies. The money you lose providing the service to the public reduces other costs. This is why corporations can’t and shouldn’t take it over.
Just to be clear: it doesn’t need to be free. But it could “lose” money.
Doesn’t need to be profitable but could be turned into something profitable is the guiding principle of the oligarchy. These are the people that don’t think food and water are a basic human right. And their constituency is of the belief that public transportation is a poverty indicator. When my city wanted to build a new bus depot in downtown they showed up en masse to speak against it because they said it would be a magnet for the homeless and crime, drive property values down. It’s a two front fight against the capitalists who know they can exploit it and the section of the general public that considers any use of public funds that don’t directly benefit themselves as theft. Don’t ask them to consider that every person on a bus is one less car in front of them while they’re stuck in traffic, they’re incapable of such abstract thinking.
Why? Couldn’t we embrace rail and renewables and electrify every car?
Oh we have to do exactly that, but my point is that just electrifying the cars is far from enough. We need fewer cars, not just have them be electric.
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We can’t give country folk easy access to cities, they might become more tolerant.
not Europe.
How do you get to the rail, and when you get to the destination city, do they have any public transit that isn’t shit?
Yeah he really made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
made my BYD and CATL investments take off.
BYD is not in good financial shape.
The problem is those thin margins and Chinese competition.
Long term they do, and they are the best placed for EVs in the future(especially since Elon went full Nazi at one point)
There are a more of US brands they’ll likely kill off I suspect
My friend worked and Nissan and he expects them to be gone soonish (he now works MG).
And the 4wd repair shop here in Australia doesn’t expect Jeep to be around in 10 years either
Whereas, I think everyone expects byd to be around in 10 years
It’s like he doesn’t understand markets, trade, geopolitics, or just basic business.
Not like we didn’t know that about him before he got elected. The first time.
Netanyahu thanks you for your sacrifice.
He needed the world to be looking elsewhere while he commits further atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon
And sadly, it has been very effective
I sincerely believe that he has serious dirt on Trump, but there’s also the fact that Trump is a fucking moron who is easily manipulated by appeals to his ego and BiBi convinced him that it’d mean he would be remembered as a wartime leader
It’s not helped by the fact that America is, by and large, a stupid country
All because of one low IQ pedo and the members of Congress and the public that support that pedo.
And still about 30% of voters…
It’s even worse. It’s 50% of voters. 30% of the population
All because of blackmail controlling that low IQ pedo.
K but somehow seems less important than the fact that Donald Trump raped and trafficked children and the Republican Party is protecting him.
With that said, sucks it’s going to cost so much to light him on fire after dumping gasoline on him, but it’s worth it. Think of the children.
You meant “more important”, right?
No? I think the fact a child rapist has been allowed to be President is of greater concern than rising gas prices. That between the two gas prices are less important than the fact the child rapist hasn’t been excised from office and preferably killed in such a way as to set an example to the rest of the Epstein Class.
Unless I fucked up that sentiment somehow in my previous post?
I agree that the stuff about trump is more important than gas prices therefore i wanted to correct your first sentence. You meant it seems that people care more about gas prices than the child rapist in power. So you should have written “more”, not “less”, if you meant it the way you just explained.
Okay no, you partially misunderstood/misread my comment. It was written more as a tongue in cheek reply to the Title. Another way to put the first of my original sentence is “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems less important than…”
I wrote it exactly how I meant it. If I replaced it with more not less it would read out “K but (Gas Prices) somehow seems more important than…” in which case I would be saying the exact opposite of what I mean.
The Original version is correct.
Got it
Ah, yes. Then yes, you did. Explanation tracks with your sentiment, but @seriousslayerguy@lemmy.world 's correction is what you want. Fully written out text you can spot which part of the comparison you took by mistake: somehow the gas prices seem more important news, while they should be less important than the child raping.
Ahh, I see my tongue in cheek tone didn’t make it through in the first part of the sentence. Welp, it happens.
Its just to hasten transition to electric vehicles. 8D chess
I hope it backfires and increases gen z and alpha support for building out public transit. Viable Metro systems in every US city, commuter rail across all 50 states and national high-speed rail system. If we have those things, who cares how much gas costs
Yes. But also, AMERICA!
That should be the default for every country
Donald Trump, greatest agent of the Green Energy Revolution in our lifetime.
I don’t feel sorry for Americans. You voted this orange turd in. While the rest of the world suffers as well
To be clearly, only about a 1/3rd of us voted for him. And realistically, of the registered voters, only a small percentage can actually influence the outcome by way of being in “swing states”.
But yah, I’m pretty fucking pissed at pensilvanians who wrote in Mickey Mouse because they thought it was funny.
I’m personally not that upset about gas prices going up as I can not afford a car anyways.
You clearly don’t understand how fucked up voting in “the cradle of democracy is.” The American government and the rich will do anything and everything in their power to disenfranchise voters. Just do a little deep dive into how fucking stupid our electoral procedures are and what they are designed to do.
Gasoline costs more right now than any time within my time living in the US
You missed the George Bush Jr era highs. $8+/gal in California. Even Houston, Texas pumps were charging north of $6. That was shortly before the 2006 mid-term bloodbath. Mysteriously, prices absolutely tanked just before the election, then rebounded a few weeks after the polls closed - not that it saved anyone.
Don’t worry. The last boat just parked in California and they say they’re good for the next six weeks. So I’m sure everything is going to be fine going forward.
Good. Have the day you voted for.
Thanks Obama! – 50% of the voters because propaganda
Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the terrorist attacks on Iran
warAs an American, I think this is great. I hope it triples.
I’m with you but a little more extreme: I hope Aermica contracts a virus or genetic condition that limits reproduction to .05% of previous so the world can start to heal without nuking us,
Where is Jessica Hyde?
I would say that’s lights out for Republicans in the midterm elections, but we are well into full irrationality in this country at this point.
unlikely, they plan to steal it . as the voting rights act just been gutted, lousiania already went foward at suspended some elections so they can purge voters, likewise with other gop states doing the same if ont already, remember KEMP he purged voter rolls just before being elected himself. THE DNC gambled for no ROI for ending all these shutdowns early and trying to attack zohran so early on.
at this point they dont even need to use ICE to intimidate people at purple areas, ICE is just there for propaganda for fox.
This is it exactly.
Also the Democrat that was raided (yesterday?) who led the redistricting initiative in VA. They’ll do more of that for the tiniest thing going forward to make them seem less trustworthy and get people voting Republican. The whole system is pretty much shot for the usual and given how finicky and uninformed the US voters are (as a whole) they’ll falll for any tiny thing. They already put a convicted felon in the white house after the whole COVID thing that he was in charge of (and possibly responsible for due to his disbanding the pandemic team in China) his first term.
tennesee after lousiania trys to eliminate the only black district through gerrymander, since the sctous gave the go ahead to do it. if people think a blue wave is happening its unlikely going to be more than a trickle with all the gerrymandering and voter suppression going on, and then the lack of trust of the “DINOS”
“Thanks Obama”
Will that have an impact on the trump phone I pre-ordered?
Nah, they have plenty of gas in Ghina.
The petro state can eat shit. As someone who works three minimum wage jobs and still comes up with shit this economy is killing me. Trump can eat a bowl of fucking shit and anyone who voted for him should realize they are a fucking asshole.
If our fellow americans, the staunch supporters of our dementia patient pedo pres, could read they would be very upset. Your lazy life isnt hard, you must not work as much as a hard working billionaire, psh. And Ill be one myself someday if my hat is red enough! Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work a 12th job! 4th? I cant read.
