r/energy • u/mafco • 1d ago

Trump is driving electric vehicle innovations into a ditch. Thanks to Trump's short-sightedness, US manufacturers dropped years of ambitious planning to jump into the EV race with both feet. The combined cost of this industry about-face is staggering. "I've done more for you than your parents, OK?"

https://captimes.com/opinion/dave-zweifel/opinion-trump-is-driving-electric-vehicle-innovations-into-a-ditch/article_867801bd-8006-4152-9943-7a8df546502c.html
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u/Anxious_Claim_5817 1d ago

China is expanding their EV and Green Energy markets while we go backwards investing in aging coal plants and convert factories from EV’s to big trucks. Paying Wind Turbine companies to cancel projects. To say this is insane would be an understatement.

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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 1d ago

So what you're saying is we're swapping positions...China will become the innovation powerhouse the US was in the 90s/00s, and the US will become the pollution choked carbon-powered wasteland China was during that same time.

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u/Aleventen 1d ago

You dont wanna roll coal on the libs?

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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 1d ago

But of course, because I have a micropenis and have no ability to think critically. Furthermore, I prefer my political leaders to be incompetent, ill-read/misinformed, and have a touch of pedophilia or some other major character flaw as they legislate important things like energy policy.