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.
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.
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.
The candidate who proposes a nationwide high speed rail network with deep rural access has my vote.
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.
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.