Comment by ivape
5 hours ago
I give up on the clean energy narrative from America. If the goal is clean energy, then why are our leaders warning about Chinese EVs eating the world? EVs eating the world solves some part of the dirty energy problem. I don’t get it anymore, so, going to take my seat next to Carlin and just say ‘fuck it, planet will be fine’.
>I give up on the clean energy narrative from America. If the goal is clean energy, then why are our leaders warning about Chinese EVs eating the world?
Goomba fallacy[1]. Within the Democratic party at least, there are at least 3 camps with different reasons for supporting/opposing EVs:
1. environmentalists, who want to reach net zero ASAP
2. "made in America" types, who want to keep encourage/retain domestic manufacturing because they think they're a source of good blue collar jobs
3. china hawks, who want to stifle china's rise
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy