cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15089465

Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

All cars should cost 500k minimum and roads should stop being built, also cap all auto-industry salaries and annual shareholder payouts to 500k with the rest overflowing to the workers. Within 20years seeing a car in America will be rare, within 50years, we'll have solved climate change.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah yes the old "ban living in rural America" strategy, that will play well. Reliance on cars was a mistake but its too late to just pretend a lot, if not most, Americans need a car to live.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did you know that before cars, people lived in rural america and that most of rural america was served by trains.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Most of rural America wasn’t served at all, you had to travel to a town with a train station. For smaller towns, no lines were ever built. It’s a completely unrealistic idea. It also doesn’t address the issue of local transport.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why not cap shareholder payouts to $0 and nationalize one of them?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Cars are like 5% of co2 emmisions. Until they ban dirty ship oil and curb industry emissions (world wide), nothing will change.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Wrong: According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), motor vehicles produced about 22% of total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020, making them the most significant contributor to the country’s emissions.

    https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions

    Also you should probably note that the automotive industry is also contributing to world emissions.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We will be long dead as China will have taken over the world if we implemented these policies and crippled our economy and military because of it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds good. In the meantime I'll be taking an electric train to a brewery that is currently a 2hr drive from me since I'm no longer slaving away so that MIC executives can build planes that don't fly, for a war that isn't going to happen.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You certainly won't be doing that in America lol. Unrealistic in the next 30 years at least.

    Have to keep going and ensure survival so that we can get to that point.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The sheer aura of capitalism is so strong in this post.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    It's the only system that works (if you ignore the planned economy that has built 45,000km of high speed rail and has a home ownership rate of 90%+, and has more green energy production than the rest of the world combined)!! That's basic economics!!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Jokes on you, I can actually already take a train from Chicago to Kalamazoo and enjoy a beer from Bell's Brewery. It's not a high-speed train to get there, but that can be upgraded if there was ever the desire to do so.

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