Biden Puts 8000 Union Members Out of Work

Indecisi0n

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I think governments were actively opposing alternative fueled vehicles and continued to heavily subsidize the petroleum industry over alternatives. So maybe there wasn’t the incentive to push for electric cars. Now governments are helping those alternative industries, plus probably battery technology has imported, the range on the electric cars have probably improved, maybe the design and look of electric cars have improved, and maybe the wh6 you charge them and access to charging has improved. I cannot predict the future, maybe people don’t convert to electric cars, I don’t know. But it seems to me that they are gaining in popularity rapidly.
They are gaining in popularity and I think we have mostly Elon to thank for that. It’s my feeling that the gas/oil/car industries did everything in their power to kill the electric car back then and they succeeded. I mean can you blame them? I would have done the same thing. Now you have a man with enough money to take these guys on and I think it gets their attention. I followed the car industry for a bit and they did everything they could to try and stop Elon from selling his cars as an independent seller. The lawsuits were insane from states to state but we all know how the game works. Bury them in lawsuits until they go bankrupt and they didn’t succeed with that tactic.
 

fishtm2001

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They are gaining in popularity and I think we have mostly Elon to thank for that. It’s my feeling that the gas/oil/car industries did everything in their power to kill the electric car back then and they succeeded. I mean can you blame them? I would have done the same thing. Now you have a man with enough money to take these guys on and I think it gets their attention. I followed the car industry for a bit and they did everything they could to try and stop Elon from selling his cars as an independent seller. The lawsuits were insane from states to state but we all know how the game works. Bury them in lawsuits until they go bankrupt and they didn’t succeed with that tactic.
I agree and would add that the fossil fuel industry has used the same tactics.
 

refineryworker05

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They are gaining in popularity and I think we have mostly Elon to thank for that. It’s my feeling that the gas/oil/car industries did everything in their power to kill the electric car back then and they succeeded. I mean can you blame them? I would have done the same thing. Now you have a man with enough money to take these guys on and I think it gets their attention. I followed the car industry for a bit and they did everything they could to try and stop Elon from selling his cars as an independent seller. The lawsuits were insane from states to state but we all know how the game works. Bury them in lawsuits until they go bankrupt and they didn’t succeed with that tactic.
Yeah I don’t like giving one person all the credit for huge societal trends because it’s false history. Creating theses untrue narratives which elevate very flawed people is how we ended up with corrupt and incompetent trump as potus. Since I was a kid trump was falsely portrayed as this great business person. Instead of the reality, that he inherited a fvk ton of money from his father. I hate to do the same thing to the very very flawed Musk.
So I think the time was right for electric cars to start having an impact. But one thing that was highlighted by the Elon worship is that it came to light how auto dealers were protected by law. I’d love if the democrats killed the law that auto manufacturers can’t sell directly to customers, and must go through a dealership. Take away their unfair legal protections which prohibit us as consumers from buying cars directly from manufacturers.
 

refineryworker05

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Obama started office with economy it couldn't be any lower than what it was It didn't have anywhere to go but up
So Obama inheriting the largest recession since the Great Depression was good for his presidency? Is that what you are going with? And trump inheriting an economy that had been adding jobs for like 7 years straight when he became potus, meant what for his presidency? And seeing him end that job creation streak after 3 years wasn’t trump’s fault. That’s the logic. See Obama having to respond and end the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression wasn’t a real challenge, but trump’s utter failure to respond to COVID and the resulting economic downturn was just bad luck. Lol. Just irrational.
 

Indecisi0n

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Yeah I don’t like giving one person all the credit for huge societal trends because it’s false history. Creating theses untrue narratives which elevate very flawed people is how we ended up with corrupt and incompetent trump as potus. Since I was a kid trump was falsely portrayed as this great business person. Instead of the reality, that he inherited a fvk ton of money from his father. I hate to do the same thing to the very very flawed Musk.
So I think the time was right for electric cars to start having an impact. But one thing that was highlighted by the Elon worship is that it came to light how auto dealers were protected by law. I’d love if the democrats killed the law that auto manufacturers can’t sell directly to customers, and must go through a dealership. Take away their unfair legal protections which prohibit us as consumers from buying cars directly from manufacturers.
I do not give Musk all the credit and he definitely has his flaws but he helped pushed the needle and he needs to be given credit for that. I do not worship any man (shut up guys) but I try to give credit where credit is do. As much as I sometimes see myself as left when they won the house /senate it made me a little worried. I do not like the idea of one group holding all the power. All we can do at this point is hope for the best.
 

DriveInDriѵeOut

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So Obama inheriting the largest recession since the Great Depression was good for his presidency? Is that what you are going with? And trump inheriting an economy that had been adding jobs for like 7 years straight when he became potus, meant what for his presidency? And seeing him end that job creation streak after 3 years wasn’t trump’s fault. That’s the logic. See Obama having to respond and end the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression wasn’t a real challenge, but trump’s utter failure to respond to COVID and the resulting economic downturn was just bad luck. Lol. Just irrational.
Full blown leftist propaganda and revisionist history.
 
So Obama inheriting the largest recession since the Great Depression was good for his presidency? Is that what you are going with? And trump inheriting an economy that had been adding jobs for like 7 years straight when he became potus, meant what for his presidency? And seeing him end that job creation streak after 3 years wasn’t trump’s fault. That’s the logic. See Obama having to respond and end the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression wasn’t a real challenge, but trump’s utter failure to respond to COVID and the resulting economic downturn was just bad luck. Lol. Just irrational.
I'm not saying I agree with everything that Trump has done okay?

As far as a COVID-19 maybe you could have done some things better I don't know.
But the Democrats fought him tooth and now about closing the borders to fight travel.

Now we are president let's open the borders up to everybody

Covid for everyone
 

refineryworker05

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I'm not saying I agree with everything that Trump has done okay?

As far as a COVID-19 maybe you could have done some things better I don't know.
But the Democrats fought him tooth and now about closing the borders to fight travel.

Now we are president let's open the borders up to everybody

Covid for everyone
So what’s your point? Is it the conspiracy belief that democrats shut down the economy to hurt trump and now are re opening because Biden is potus? If that’s the case, if your delusional belief you say democrats control the economy because they have the ability to stop it whenever they want and start it whenever they want, then why wouldn’t you want democrats in charge?
 
So what’s your point? Is it the conspiracy belief that democrats shut down the economy to hurt trump and now are re opening because Biden is potus? If that’s the case, if your delusional belief you say democrats control the economy because they have the ability to stop it whenever they want and start it whenever they want, then why wouldn’t you want democrats in charge?
The Democrats want to bring everyone to their knees and be thankful for stimulus packages so they can promote communism
Let's make as many illegal people come in this country and make them citizens and it'll be grateful to Democrats so they have a generations of immigrants to vote them back in the office
 

refineryworker05

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The Democrats want to bring everyone to their knees and be thankful for stimulus packages so they can promote communism
Let's make as many illegal people come in this country and make them citizens and it'll be grateful to Democrats so they have a generations of immigrants to vote them back in the office
So let’s add to your delusional beliefs. So not only do democrats control the economy and can shut down and restart the economy whenever they want. Also based on your delusional beliefs, The democrats have so much power that they can bring everyone to their knees and be thankful for a stimulus, while they promote communism, and the democrats can bring in “illegals” and make it so that they vote for democrats for generations. So if democrats in your delusional beliefs have all this power and control over everything already why don’t you want them in power?
 
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