LogFAQs > #980394553

DarthAragorn posted...

"if you can't afford a house go fuck yourself" is not a winning strategy to sell vehicles

Houses aren't the only places where you can find electrical outlets.

CableZL posted...

People aren't going to want random people charging their EVs at their houses. There needs to be a lot of EV charging stations build around the country. Legislation has been passed to build about 500,000 charging stations, I believe, but we still need them to be built.

Sure, but there are plenty of homeowners who do most of their driving near their house for most of the year who haven't bought an EV. The charging stations will get built either way.

radical_rhino posted...

The actual reason for these tariffs, for those who care, is that we dont want to have critical manufacturing dependent on a current rival and potential future adversary. China is trying to destroy our manufacturing capabilities by subsidizing their own industries; its the same as when a large company lowers prices to destroy competition, then raises prices afterwards. Also, wed have less leverage to stop China from doing things like, say, invading Taiwan, if were dependent on them for keeping our infrastructure stable.

Our military manufacturing capabilities are not impacted by China selling cheap EVs.

s0nicfan posted...

For folks who aren't aware, the Chinese government is currently subsidizing their domestic EV market to bring the prices down to below the manufacturing cost. They're literally undercutting all the competition by having the government make their cars cheaper than it actually cost to make. The tariffs are to keep them from flooding the market and drowning out competition.

Is that not the selling point of globalism? Countries export what they're good at making so that they can trade for other goods they're not as proficient in making. It's not China's fault that US auto companies dragged their heels for so long on making EVs and are currently content with keeping prices ridiculously high. These tariffs will do nothing but let domestic auto companies stay complacent and continue price gouging.