US policymakers are rolling out big incentives for electric vehicle buyers who surrender a gas-powered model, advancing efforts to cancel carbon emissions.
How about we only let companies make 10% profit on EVs and outlaw dealer price gouging? OEMs need to turn in the exact cost of their productionp to the government and they can only sell the vehicle for 10% more than what it costs to produce. These greedy assholes are making 30% profit margins which comes out of your pockets. Capitalism only serves to incentivize greed over our health and the planet. We need course correction.
Now obviously everyone having their own little metal box to get around in is a really bad use of resources so that will have to be dealt with in the long term by building public transit infrastructure and moving away from car centric city design but in the short term we are going to have to reign in the worst aspects of capitalism.
10% profits would increase the costs of all EVs except for Tesla.
It’s capitalism - someone taking a risk and investing capital to develop a production scale EV that made electric vehicles possible/practical to build in the first place. Now the fact that capitalist turned out to be a grade A douchebag is another matter.
How about we only let companies make 10% profit on EVs and outlaw dealer price gouging? OEMs need to turn in the exact cost of their productionp to the government and they can only sell the vehicle for 10% more than what it costs to produce. These greedy assholes are making 30% profit margins which comes out of your pockets. Capitalism only serves to incentivize greed over our health and the planet. We need course correction.
Now obviously everyone having their own little metal box to get around in is a really bad use of resources so that will have to be dealt with in the long term by building public transit infrastructure and moving away from car centric city design but in the short term we are going to have to reign in the worst aspects of capitalism.
10% profits would increase the costs of all EVs except for Tesla.
It’s capitalism - someone taking a risk and investing capital to develop a production scale EV that made electric vehicles possible/practical to build in the first place. Now the fact that capitalist turned out to be a grade A douchebag is another matter.
I was wondering how long it would take for the “Fuck Cars” crowd to get here.
In reality, we can have both. Much of Europe proves this fact.