The weird thing is, the market distortions and subsidies are in fact really good policy that many in the US are simply brainwashed against generally. You'll re

The weird thing is, the market distortions and subsidies are in fact really good policy that many in the US are simply brainwashed against generally. You'll regularly see people put down Tesla because EVs got subsidies. The subsidies seem to have been less effective than the Chinese ones, but they're objecting to the very concept of subsidies. I agree also that there's racism and ignorance about the quality of the engineering, but to some degree you need to create the market to allow the engineers to build and learn what works in practice and to do value engineering on making things at scale cheaply. There's a reasonable amount of research on this for solar PV, how government support kicked the market off and then the mass production took over to drive prices down.