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      For 4% of the world population maybe.

      When eventually the remaining 96% of the global market for cars choose electric cars, Trump and co. can drill all the oil they want and force the American population to drive shitty cars, but they’re going to have to supply those shitty cars and that shitty oil. It’s worthless to anyone else.

      I mean, the Americans might as well have voted for an Amish president forcing people to use horse carriages. The rest of the world has no reason to follow suit.

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    This is a weird one for me to understand. When Trump and Musk are having fun together do they just avoid the topic?

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      Musk wants Trump to pull the subsidies. So that the legacy auto makers won’t benefit from them. This will just slow the adoption of EVs. But it will not negatively impact Tesla.

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    When future historians analyze the collapse of the US, they’re going to marvel at how blitheringly insane it was on the way down.

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        With the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a destructively self-serving few, there are only two groups of people as far as that goes - those who would do something to stop it but can’t and those who could do something to stop it but won’t.