They’re stuck between a hard and a rock place.
Stuck between mature technology that works and infant technology that doesn’t. With the current corporatism, they do what they are told, and Uncle Sugar will bail them out later. Who really thought EV’s were going to take off? Overeducated morons with zero common sense did.
The Fed has over $7 trillion in it’s balance sheet. Loosing $114 billion is noticeable, but not the end of the world for them.