honestly? even if the the last guy wins next time (I’d say his name but I don’t know if it trips automod to delete this for politics) and decides to outlaw electric cars, I don’t think he’d carve out an exception for Tesla, he seems to not like Elon very much, which is extremely funny to me tbh
yeah the whole aspect of the culture is a little… distressing lol
they DO benefit from that, that’s their entire business model, no almost about it
yeah, oil market is really complicated, we sell and buy back and resell and rebuy and stockpile and pull from the stockpile and cycle in and out and all kinds of other bullshit, it’s really fuckin stupid tbh
they play the long game, it’s been working out well for them
yeah and Ford brought Transit Connects over with extra seats they threw away when they got here, I would rather just get rid of the stupid tarriff than cause more stupid bullshit to get around it
nooooooooooo kiddin
I am going to try to link an article about why this is but IDK if it’ll run afoul of the various rules about links and politics here. It’s a Salon article about someone who went to the NADA conference to see what dealers were doing with the EV transition and what they saw there.
if it gets nuked or something, let’s just say that a Certain Political Ideology common in car dealership owners is EXTREMELY Anti-EV on an institutional level. There’s an anecdote about someone the author talked to near the end that said that dealers are going as far as declining to sell fords any more at all rather than do the EV transition to Ford’s standards. Grim stuff.
wish we didn’t have the fuckin Chicken Tax in america so we would have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting cool stuff like this
yeah they’re all aimed like shit and don’t work right because tesla’s QC is abysmal and always has been, tesla lights are the worst aimed shit on the road, I can’t stand it when they’re behind me at night, I’ll slow down on the highway forcing em to pass me just so i can fucking SEE again, whether I’m in the lexus or the miata
i basically only use reddit on desktop any more because they made the mobile experience so goddamn shitty, and i’ll be damned if i pay out the nose to fund reddit’s stupid ass API choices
They didn’t put all their eggs in one basket, they’ve still got a couple different types of hybrids AND regular gas cars AND are starting to come out with battery EVs like the BZ4X or whatever cat-across-the-keyboard thing they named it. That’s at least three baskets!