Aside from the fears about their government and car software (whatever side you’re on, you’re probably not being convinced otherwise), Biden wants to encourage domestic production. Hard to do that when China is undercutting the costs and prices here. Just look at the collapse of the US steel industry to see similar situations.
Domestic producers seem to be actively hostile to this type of car (small, cheap) no matter who produces it. This isn’t Biden vs China, it’s domestic car companies vs their own customers and Biden is just another member of their team.
Encourage domestic production
As if the domestic makers aren’t 90% Chinese parts anyway.
It’s because the domestic makers know that people in America want better cars but want to keep their profit margins. So they collude with one-another to make it so that every automaker makes a fuckhuge AWD, CVT, $29,999 starting MSRP (plus dealer tip) crossover POS so that there’s no competition and the only choice is what color logo you want on the grille of your
planetkillerfreedom machine.These corporate socialists are terrified of an actually free economy because they know how much we hate their product
As if the domestic makers aren’t 90% Chinese parts anyway.
Hence the steel production collapse I mentioned.
There’s something to be said about subsidizing corporate profits, but there is a limit to how much they can compete with production from places like China that have notoriously cheap production. Especially if we also take wage issues in the US into consideration. It’s not cheap to pay affordable wages.
As for the type of cars built domestically, I can only imagine that local ev competition would help crib the “planet killers”. Foreign cars are hardly going to change that.
There’s something to be said about subsidizing corporate profits
There’s everything to say about this. Taxpayers have bailed out the Big Three how many times now? Ford, GM, and Stellantis should have gone bankrupt 10x over. Maybe we could’ve actually had a pro-consumer domestic market and not the hostage situation we have now with their lobbyists fixing congress for the past century.
As for the type of cars built domestically, I can only imagine that local ev competition would help crib the “planet killers”. Foreign cars are hardly going to change that
Kinda like how the domestic makers handicapped EV adoption at every step for the past three decades? They have absolutely no interest in providing good, reliable, and sustainable cars for people. The profits are in massive, energy inefficient, loaded with who-asked-for-this? ‘‘features’’ and they know full well that the only way to sell these to people is by making fair competition illegal.
