That’s kinda my point. In USA the price of solar has always been expensive. It’s now really cheap. Just not in USA. China made it affordable. USA made it expensive again.

Same thing with EVs.

What happens when people in America find out how much sunshine costs?

I suspect around when that happens interest in battery powered cars will increase.

There’s also no question that, for now, gasoline cars are selling better in second-tier markets, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, with scarce EV-charging infrastructure.

Longer term, Beijing aims to dominate EVs and plug-in hybrids globally. But in the interim, many Chinese automakers are building overseas brands by giving customers whatever they want.

Free people in the land of the free don’t use nets. They use fentanyl because they can’t afford good heroin or health care.

You know people can read the article right?

The dispute is an example of how Europe is caught between Washington and Beijing in their rivalry over trade and tech.

Netherlands issued its seizure order after the United States last year put Wingtech on its “entity list” of companies that face export controls, and then expanded it in September to include subsidiaries including Nexperia.

Keeping oil prices down slows down the green energy transition. That’s it.

If that seems odd to you then read up on what China has been doing with green energy. Then USA.

The world runs on fossil fuels. What happens when China stops playing that game?

The weird part is foreign investment kinda ignored all the Chinese real estate investments outside of China done by China nationals.

Rich people don’t like poor people having money. Especially when they don’t spend it in service based economies. Doubly so when it comes to the stock market.

The peer-reviewed report, written by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Climate Analytics and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, aims to focus attention on the supply side of the climate equation and the government policies that encourage or steer fossil fuel production.

What’s their bias?

Not horseshit. Congressional public record.

Notice how you called them Republican and Democrat?

“I Call Bullshit!” Jon on the PACT Act Being Blocked in the Senate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uPqYhkIzrA

Nitpicking is not the problem at hand.

Call them Republican because they want you to call them anything but that.

There is no good vs bad in Congress. It’s Republican vs Democrat.

This is actually really good. Amazing how much people could learn from reading fantasy and sci-fi. Shout out to Babylon 5. Never too late to watch that show folks.

Nation wide workers strike? Is this a thing? Asking for a friend in USA? /s

Like clockwork.

No easy access to legal porn means illegal porn becomes more profitable. That’s very bad.

No they don’t.

Voters are told to pick which driver they want and both drivers don’t listen to directions and can’t read a map.

So some voters don’t care who’s driving the bus or where it’s going.

Because they have no reason to care.

They tolerate the shitty ride and shitty passengers while looking out the window. Waiting for the ride to end. But it never does.

The problem is people have voted for ice cream. They have read about people voting for ice cream for years before they were even born.

Lots of people want ice cream but we are at a point where people KNOW the cliff exists. They DO NOT know the ice cream shop exists because all the times they were PROMISED ice cream the bus just stopped at a sewage treatment plant.

The voters are not the problem. They have zero reason to trust the bus driver. Because the bus driver refuses to throw the cliff voters off the bus. Bad optics.

China wants USA stable and sane. Weak or strong USA isn’t a priority right now.

People tend to forget how afraid China is of USA. Last time Trump was in office Milley had to call China a couple of times to tell them USA was not going to implode and attack China.

Someone has to make hard decisions when other people won’t make sane decisions. No one wants Trump to start WW3 with China. No one.

Remember what just happened when China hit the off switch on rare earth metals?

Yup. Most things go bad if not fixed and out of control. Moderation is key. The problem is the people in charge don’t want a good system. They want a system they can control.

They will do anything but a fair system because then they would lose control.