If this doesn’t make you chortle, nothing will:
Executives at Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis are begging President-elect Donald Trump to keep in place President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit.
Aw diddums. How my heart bleeds for your lost profits, you chiseling bastards.
What’s the old expression? Oh yeah: lie down with the dogs, get up with fleas.
Well, you kowtowed to the government stupidity, always forgetting the other old dictum: what the government giveth, the government may take away.
Had there not been so much virtue-signaling from the auto manufacturers as they glommed onto those subsidies (#Jaguar #Volvo #etc), I might have had a little sympathy. As it is, however, I don’t give a rat’s ass.
And I know the followup threat: “Without subsidies, we’re going to have to close factories and lay off workers!”
Here’s a thought: take all the executive bonuses you were going to pay your management — yeah, right down to junior levels — and pay those billions (and it is billions) into an independent investment fund, i.e. a fund that’s managed by a financial institution so that you can’t raid it whenever you feel like it (#PensionPlans), and let the interest payments go to the workers you’re going to lay off.
It won’t be enough, but it sure as hell is better than the alternative, which is continuing to make a product that nobody wants, partially (or mostly) funded by taxpayers.
You should have done your research before sinking to your knees — anyone with a brain could have told you that the whole eco-electrical boondoggle was doomed to failure, especially if it was going to be dependent on government building the charging-station infrastructure (and which we’ve already seen has been a catastrophic failure).
The best lessons are those which come through suffering; so suffer, and learn.
You idiots.
“ The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit.”
Invested? No. WASTED!!!!
“Without subsidies, we’re going to have to close factories and lay off workers!”
GOOD! Fuck Ford and Fuck Stellantis too.
I hope both of those companies go tits up.
They have been building absolute shit for years.
Consumers decide what to buy with their money. Not the government using stolen tax money.
Why the fuck should tax money be stolen from people like me who drive a modest gas powered vehicle (4 cylinder Toyota) so that some liberal cock sucker can buy an overpriced dildo battery powered piece of shit with my tax money helping with the “rebate”
If you need stolen tax money to entice consumers to buy your shitty electric vehicles, then your vehicles suck.
I used to like ford years ago. Then they refused to reimburse me the 700 and change for a repair they had a recall on (plastic manifold failures). They had a class action they settled and said either get it repaired at a dealer or bring a receipt if you had it repaired at a private garage. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Toyota, Honda and Subaru make good vehicles that the working class want.
As a side note – Electric vehicles are heavier than their gas power counterparts. This means more wear and tear on roads and bridges etc. there should NOT be subsidies for them. Rather the people buying and driving them should be paying extra taxes on these pieces of shit.
Electric vehicles have also proven to be a huge fire hazard and far more difficult to put out the car fires they have vs gas powered.
Charge the idiots who buy and drive these electric chunks of shit more money. They should be happy to pay for these junkers, after all they are allegedly saving the planet right?