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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (14 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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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