• Wahots@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    Inb4 “both parties are the same”.

    While I hate stuff like these rollbacks, we are already starting to see EVs save people money on gas and service, and they are stupidly fast compared to ICE counterparts. That’s something Americans of all stripes can get behind.

    Once I tried an ebike, I realized I never wanted to go back to gas engines. So fast, so much torque, and pennies to charge vs $70 gas tanks at Costco (even more at a normal gas station). It just makes economic sense to run PEVs in all major urban areas in addition to mass transit.

    With traffic and some protected bike lanes, even a conventional bike can almost beat a car in a 7-14 mile drive in my city. An ebike makes it even easier.

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      5 months ago

      Both parties are the same doesn’t mean that they have literally the same policy it means that they work together and focus on Republican policy. Because there are only two choices the fact that the Democrats are perpetually the weaker half despite having a much greater Democratic majority including during voting when you claim that it matters it means that the Republican policy always gets passed.

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        5 months ago

        So basically, one side is a hive mind that’s required to always do what its most powerful members want, and the other has free thinkers that sometimes disagree, and you’re saying that the latter is weak, pointless, and should never exist.

        Buddy, this is a terrible definition of “weak”. What you’re describing is a goddamn borg cube.

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      5 months ago

      we are already starting to see EVs save people money on gas and service, and they are stupidly fast

      • there was an article on measurable air pollution improvements in I think San Francisco, attributed to EV use
      • the stupidity on industrial policy gets me: EVs are a new industry growing fast, and Chinese companies are growing fastest. Effing idiots want to throw away the chances for American companies to get into the new market. Sure, be more profitable for the next quarter while watching your legacy market dry up and don’t even try to make your mark. Somehow this is all twisted up in Sinophobia and racism and we’re in Bizarro World where everything is opposite