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This is oversimplifying; European EV tariffs are company specific and (formally) aim to counteract state subsidies. From a an average voter perspective, "sacri
by myrmidon 2y ago
This is oversimplifying; European EV tariffs are company specific and (formally) aim to counteract state subsidies.
From a an average voter perspective, "sacrificing" local industry for a (temporary?) 20% discount on EVs is not too popular anyway, and neither is it gonna meaningfully save the planet IMO.
Tariff levels are basically the same as US import tariffs on pickup trucks, so not especially high, either.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>and neither is it gonna meaningfully save the planet IMO The EU's tethered bottle caps also aren't gonna save the planet yet we have to live with them because that was the selling point.
- myrmidon 2y agoI personally think tethered caps are fine, pretty sure they objectively reduce wild trash/lead to less cleanup requirements behind tourists and the like. Do you think that the cost/benefit tradeoff in untariffed Chinese cars would be significantly better than tethered caps or deposits on bottles, or banning throwaway plastic straws? Because this is far from clear to me; sure, introducing more, cheaper electric cars would help much more than reducing plastic waste, but the cost/risk to local industry is also MUCH higher, and a situation like the one with agriculture (a whole industry sector running basically on subsidies, in every industrialized country) is worth trying to avoid, too.