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"The situation has nothing to do with the current US administration" - who for the past decade has ran on keeping oil fields drilling, romanticizing gas/oil mon
by Jcampuzano2 2y ago
"The situation has nothing to do with the current US administration" - who for the past decade has ran on keeping oil fields drilling, romanticizing gas/oil money, and before Elon actively campaigned against EV adoption and claimed climate change doesn't exist so keep burning that oil.
And lets say all of this is true - how does that explain China's massive adoption rate of EV's if its so prohibitively expensive and non-sharable. We suck at producing, place low value on auto research and development, and have an entire swath of people dedicated monetarily to keeping oil/gas around despite its adverse effects.
Most American cars are behind practically every other corner of the globe in reliability, safety, and cost.
- bluGill 2y agoChina didn't have massive gas adoption. It was starting to come, but they were starting from a different place where gas didn't already exist.
- Jcampuzano2 2y agoThey also started behind the US on EV adoption and R&D but look where we are now.
- bluGill 2y agoThe US already has (and has) a lot of expertise in ICE development. To catch up to the US in ICE they would have had to do a lot more in R&D just because the US is also moving there (though ICE has long ago reached the point of diminishing returns on investment)