https://x.com/POTUS/status/1790385220983677016
I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 14, 2024
25% on steel and aluminum,
50% on semiconductors,
100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.
China is determined to dominate these industries.
I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them.
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probably for the best that cheap chinese EVs don't flood the market (they're under $10k); if poors were too mobile they could show up in nice areas and cause problems.
the solar panels one is r-slurred though if he claims to care about climate change.
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Not really, there's no green tech out there to make climate change reversible/stop. Every EV you buy whether it's from China or the USA comes from minerals that the Earth was r*ped for. Nuclear power is the only viable solution, but it just doesn't gain political traction because of Greenpeace. That and globalization of manufacturing means long supply lines which means more carbon. Overall, global warming, if it is driven by humans (Last Ice Age in the 1860's), is here to stay, and trying to stem it is r-slurred beyond controlling air pollution and water purity.
If you want a really hot take, bombing coal power plants in Africa with EV fighter-bombers would save more on carbon output than using 1-ply potty paper.
!chuds !nooticers
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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No one should ever build Nukular Reactors!! There a is a good documentary Chernobyl on HBO watch it and edjukate yourself. Did you forgot Fukishima? the anime disaster? what if that happens in your back yard?? !physics tell him!
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You represent a man raping a lady. The lady is mother earth and the man is man.
!wolfpack this neighbor is trying to r*pe Gaia
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I thought this until last week, but the math on solar actually works out so that within a few decades, it will actually be cheaper to electrically pull carbon from the air to make methane than to pull it from the ground; this will make most of our hydrocarbon consumption carbon-neutral and halt global warming. but it depends on solar continuing to get exponentially cheaper at the rate that it has been, which this tariff will frick with.
https://www.dertaskforce.com/p/paving-the-world-with-solar-with
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I understand, and get the optimism behind the solar stuff. I'm just used to being beaten over the head with the "We're all going to die unless we give up meat" and I just found it unconvincing. If the green pipe dream turns out more real than what I experience in an opium den, then great. I just don't think it will. The funds for green energy in my opinion are allocated too much to current production ready tech and not enough into R&D.
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R&D can be worth funding, but it's also the case that subsidizing demand leads to an increase in production capacity, which causes prices to fall. this spurs a further increase in demand and it becomes a virtuous cycle.
I don't think it's a moore's law situation where we'll hit a plateau because it doesn't need to get more powerful, only cheaper. you're not pushing up against fundamental physical limits of what a solar panel can be. what you're doing is finding the most efficient way to produce them in a series of progressively larger and larger scales of mass production, which private industry can do just fine if the demand is there.
we're talking about an industry that largely didn't exist 30 years ago where potential demand is basically limitless as long as you can find economical uses for an intermittent energy source on a cheap piece of land, which it turns out we can. it's true that the exponential curve may slow due to saturating traditional demand in urban power grids, but it's not going to stop. solar production can keep getting more efficient even when it's not scaling up so rapidly, which will lead to new applications for mass energy use suddenly becoming viable and the industry exploding again.
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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Meat production isn't scalable without destroying ecosystems which would eventually come back to bite us in the butt. That said I'm still eating meat while the getting is good.
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Biden's handlers reminded him that climate change isn't actually real
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Tbf Biden wouldn't remember tweeting anything last week, yet alone 2019
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!neolibs thoughts?
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Tariffs bad
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Biden is.....not le good.
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Biden is a bipartisan President: he combines Elizabeth Warren with Donald Trump
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I hate China, but tariffs decrease overall production and exchange of goods. Tariffs should only be used as a reaction to other tarrifs. The better thing to do is policies that will promote national industries, but that's hard to do and even harder to pass, so frick it I guess.
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now let's talk about the tariffs imposed on USAmerkin goods sold overseas
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Uh, I did.
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are you sure
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Yes, r-slur.
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huh.
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Sorry you are r-slurred? Would you like me to bold the terms that point this out like a high school text book?
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Did you forget what website this is? I'm sure themotte would love to read about it though
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Impressed with the rare honesty for the tariffs without any hyperbole. Honest but also embarrassing.
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why has fux news not sent a man on the street to ask target cashiers their thoughts on any specific economic policy
that would be funny in a dogwalker janny kind of way
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He's gunna rip biden so hard at the debates for this.
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right."
Snapshots:
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