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1 posted on 03/28/2023 5:40:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
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No, a government ban is just as disruptive as a government mandate.

Let the market decide who wants an electric vehicle, and who wants to build an electric vehicle.


2 posted on 03/28/2023 5:43:58 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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GM and Ford both project that their electric cars will be profitable in a few years.

We will achieve fusion power before then.

3 posted on 03/28/2023 5:45:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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The good news is that by 2035 the Energiewende to “renewables” will guarantee that there will be no reliable source of electrical power. And what about trips over 200 miles? Forget it. Take the bus. Unless you going to the Vineyard. Then you fly private.


7 posted on 03/28/2023 5:50:23 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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Both Ford & GM deserve it. Maybe they can build solar panels? Or windmills?


8 posted on 03/28/2023 5:51:28 AM PDT by O6ret
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Reminds me when the gov’t did NOT ban incandescent light bulbs. They simply wrote efficiency standards that were so strict that the laws of physics meant an incandescent bulb could never meet the standard. So we had to put up with the execrable ice-cream-cone fluorescents. The LED lights are finally providing a somewhat acceptable substitute, but I still have my hoard of incandescent light bulbs to use in my reading lamp.


9 posted on 03/28/2023 5:52:24 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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Some days I just imagine and marvel at how great this country could’ve without the leftist forces that drag us down. Its really something to behold.


11 posted on 03/28/2023 5:54:16 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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"George Soros has reportedly lost over $1 billion with his Rivian investment.

I don't believe that..

If Soros invested 1 billion in electric cars, you can bet your rubber duck somewhere he's shorting them by ten times that much..!

I don't thing George Soros invests on the positive side of anything. Especially in America, it's against his nature..

12 posted on 03/28/2023 5:55:32 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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These are the same idiots who said that Tesla’s business plan could never work. The reality:

Energy is going green IN SPITE of regulation, not because of it. It didn’t go green in the last 80 years, because the technology isn’t there. Now that the technology comes from non-government sources after a century of statist meddling, the statists are desperate to say, “we did that!”

When you read that a car costs $220,000 but sells for $80,000, what they really mean is that all of the expenditure to bring the car to market divided by the number of cars ALREADY sold is $220,000. If you’re trying to see whether Ford should continue to make electrical cars, you need to ask what the cost of the NEXT car is. That won’t tell you whether overall it was a good investment by Ford, whether if you could go back in time, you should tell Ford to skip it. But it does say that GIVEN THE ALREADY SUNK COSTS, Ford should continue.

But Tesla suggests that HOLY COW! you can make huge profit margins to pay off those sunk costs quickly.


13 posted on 03/28/2023 5:56:06 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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The Ban is coming 2030 or 35 is what lots of insane countries have already said


14 posted on 03/28/2023 5:57:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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We’ll soon see Occasional Cortex tout a picture of a Suberban with a propeller stand on its solar celled roof - and telling us that the car runs on the wind and sun. And the faster it goes, the more the wind will turn the propellor, thereby generating electricity. Not even close to kidding. She and her leftist ilk are THAT stupid.


16 posted on 03/28/2023 6:00:08 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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The only way to create demand for electric cars is through government mandates....

Remember the auto company bailouts?

Here is the payback.

DC now makes decisions on how auto companies are to be run.


17 posted on 03/28/2023 6:04:07 AM PDT by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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Picture the vehicles running around Havana. That is what is coming here.

While concentrating on this electric frenzy, the back up on parts for repairs on ICE has exploded to the point where you are lucky if it does not take months to get the needed parts. My buddy needed a few parts for the trans on a 2019 mustang. While under warrantee, he had to go to five dealerships to find one that would accept the car. Shuffled off to a holding pen, he told me the number of vehicles in it was outrageous. So much so, no loaner offered but the dealer is paying for a rental.

It will only get worse with the dummies running our country these days. Add to that the woke dummies running our companies and catastrophe is around the corner.


18 posted on 03/28/2023 6:04:11 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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There is no portion of functional normal society that government isn’t ready and willing to destroy just for the sake of change and self gratification.


19 posted on 03/28/2023 6:05:47 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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democrat policies doing what democrat policies do.

following any advice from dems is the best way to destroy your business.

prove me wrong.


22 posted on 03/28/2023 6:09:29 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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There's a mall in my town that's rather high end...mainly because the town is surrounded by very wealthy towns.A "Lucid" dealership has recently opened up there and for a while they had a display of several vehicles in the "town square" part of the mall.

On the many occasions that I passed by this display (I go there regularly to walk and shop) I only saw one person talking to a salesman. And the same does for the Tesla dealership that's been there for a couple of years.

It seems as if not even the nation's affluent are beating down the doors of EV sellers.

23 posted on 03/28/2023 6:12:50 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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A government ban will just end up killing domestic car manufacturing.


25 posted on 03/28/2023 6:14:35 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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What a load of crap

Tesla is the reason the market is in panic. No company can compete with the Tesla disruption.


27 posted on 03/28/2023 6:18:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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Banning cars would suit them just fine, especially after microchips become unavailable because China has invaded Taiwan.


28 posted on 03/28/2023 6:21:23 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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$81,000 dollars for an electric truck OMG who the hell can afford that?? That is more than a mortgage used to be for something that does nothing but depreciate, at least with a mortgage it went up in value!!


31 posted on 03/28/2023 6:22:14 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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Bttt


33 posted on 03/28/2023 6:25:47 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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